EFFECT OF THE STRIKE.
it would be well for the working classes, in their leisure moments, to ask themselves the question, who i* the present strike going to most seriously affect? If the waterside workers were to win the day, and gain all they ask, how much better off would the aver&ge worker be? Homebody must be made to pay for the disorganisation of trade that has taken place. Who wul that somebody be? Will it be the merchant, the middleman, or the capitalistF Most assuredly not. The man who will suiter most will be the working man with the'family. Already the prices of household commodities have taken a sliarp rise, and when the strike is Over these prices will be maintained until the tradesman ie recouped the loss he lias sustained. , There never was a strike, in the history of the world, from which the workorifcrfbriyed an advantage. "There was lfeveiv one in- which he did, iiot suffer heavy" ..loss'.' Them 'why" are working men so foolish as to adopt this burba'ric means of redressing a grievance? The very men who object to war-as a method of settling international troubles are those who advocate industrial war to settle local grievances'. .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 November 1913, Page 4
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201EFFECT OF THE STRIKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 November 1913, Page 4
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