The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1890.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3600, 29 August 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1890.

The strike is likely to affect Masterton in more than one direction. Wellington people are already beginning to draw surplus produce from here, and the prices of the necessaries of life are certain to rise if the'present trouble be hot speedily adjusted. A dearth of coal will probably lead in a very short time to the discontinuance of the gas service and many other minor inconveniences will have to be submitted to. The disorganisation of the train service may result in traffic having again to be oarried along the main road to Wellington. Everybody, more or less, will be eubjeoted 10 minor troubles and worries. These, we trust, will be borne patiently, for what is termed "theoongestipn" will be less severe here than in Wellington, . and are we not as colonists' capable oi occasionally enduring a little hardness ? It is better that these, difficulties should bo faced than the people should live ij) .a continual state of suspense as to what the Jailor party will do next. The Wellington Evtnuuj Post, a journal which has been loyal to the labor oause, plainly says what the end of the struggle will be. " Undoubtedly," writes our contemporay, " the Maritime Council have taken up a wrong position, and one which they cannot sijstajii, They should not, therefore, be ashamed, pr hesitate to retreat from it, Honourable retreat is still Ppen to them, and every consideration of justice, mercy, patriotism, and even • self-interest, demands that they should take advantage of the opportunity. If they do. not, but on the contrary permit this struggle to assume the dimensions which it will do jf allowed to develop, they will have struck the most completely fatal blow at the whole system of Trades Unionismone from the evil effeots of which it will not recover for many years, possibly not within the present generation/'