THE STRIKS-AND AFTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 December 1913, Page 4

THE STRIKS-AND AFTER.

,lne question as to which party is going to win'the strike in. New £ea-' : land no longer requires an answer.' That .question was settled as the ports were opened. The J&ed-' vFeds.vhave fired their last sho!t in Australia, tand it has ' missed | .its mars. The Labour Federation, jai,a ; potential, elemenfriii the social affairs?, of this country, is now a thing of tile past/. It will never.be recognised, agr eemeni. that ; may be ifaade with 'ithe* employers" or ': labour, j But how arises, what, ijs-tb. become Bf; ; thpse unhappy dupes of "the revolutionaries who have been thrown out of work ? We sthted \ some days ago that urfless they liiadd ' early application they would , i find themselves ' "left;" ' And siir.ely; enough, fifty of, the™ vvho tried; to gain admission to th;e hevv union atAuckland were <( bli|ckhall^d % '' | w«; are sorry,-indeed,,'that Jhe^ne^ju>ion .should -shave takm-up-tins-At*i«. tude.wfor: many, of more to b6 pitie'd'thanMamed.;' Theycame out against theig will-, and ; *haye. be(?ri i , ; l<ei'rorised r iutp romainmg out. ■ We aire ..deeplyVconcerhed j for', the* wives and families' of those '•jwlib duped.- by .plausible agitators. .'The' latter,' "if they had [not. hearts 'of fflint and faces ofi brass,;wduldr : release the workers at once from any : obligation in regard' toithe and givo f them an opportunity; ;of getting-ttf work before every : hope s ii gohe." The stuhbornnoss 6f jthe unparalleled misj'.ery and distress,*and ,will bring ,the„ eßeeiwtions : of the unemployed .upon those, who are, responsible for their ! undoing, v X . ; ■■■<' "■.