NEWSPAPER OPINION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 November 1913, Page 4

NEWSPAPER OPINION.

The whole of the newspapers of New Zealand, while one or two solitary and unimportant exceptions, has supported the Government in the firm stand it has taken over the jjncl the sending-of sDecial Constables to Wellington. t<J in maintaining The leaders of the strike are also bitterly assailed by Opposition as well as Government organs. The Manawatn Times, a strong Opposition journal, in its issue of yesterday, said:—

"We have the advice of the greatest labour leaders upon the foolishness of Syndicalism. These men who have pushed themselves upon New, Zealand labour must go. In the interests of the class they seek to govern they must go. The workers must be shown the class of individual they are, the- pernicious effect of the doctrine they preach, But there must be no •wavering 'and no timidity if this is to be done. Present inconvenience must not stand in the way. We do not like some of Mr Massey's political principles, or the absence of them, but "wo admire firmness, his determination-to exterminate obnoxious Tammanyism from the Dominion, and we trust no advocates of turn him from his course. We have a law, and courts of justice for the equitable settlement of our labour disputes. It is the British method, and British justice ''has been the pride of the race for centuries. We must jealously guard it in. this voung land, and go to any sacrifice rather than have it supplanted by tyranny, terrorism and mobocracy."