A SCAPEGOAT WANTED.
The expected is happening. Now that the strike is over, the leaders are quarrelling among themselves. Mr'W.'T. Young, who was the most prominent figure in the strike,' has been bitterly assailed, and be: has replied by tendering, his resignationfas ■President of the .Labour Federation. The washing-up. 'will not be ; perforned in a day. Hundreds of men will be out of work for weeks, and ■ possibly, for months, and there will be no strike "pay coming in. The solidarity has evaporated, and the poor, deluded fellows who cannot find work will curse the leaders by whom .they have been duped. It is the old, old story of men being led by asses. But the lesson,, costly though-it be, "will not be lost on the workers of the Dominion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 December 1913, Page 4
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130A SCAPEGOAT WANTED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 December 1913, Page 4
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