The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1890

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3665, 18 November 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1890

Everybody as a rule is contented [ fhjjt the issues of the late strike ppuldbp kepc'in the" baok"grqum| • BO far as may be necessary, to" allow any soreness arising out of them to. 1 die away, There are, however, at a ; time whon labour candidates are contending for political supremacy, , some aspeotß of tbe question whicli must be borne in mind, In tin's district there were no strikers, but steps were taken to organise a labour party, which would be in a position .to back up employees on farms and gtations ijj demanding higher wages, and in thawing up thoir employment should such demands be not conceded. This movement came to nothing, partly because the employees themselves had too much good sense to placetbemselves in afalseposition,and partly became the Knights of Labor, the on which dependency was placed for a local agitation displayed a spirit of moderation which was hardly anticipated;by those who were instrumental in obtaining its introduction into this district. ; We see no reason why the Knights of Labor, if they continue their mission in the spirit with wLicb they baye begun it, should not secure the hearty co-operation of even employers of labor in improving the condition of the workers. In this district the relations between employers and employees have not fortunately been embittered by a strike, thoy are distipptly friendly, and as far as wo p abjtj tq judge there would be no inconsistency on the part of emplpyers in becoming members of the order and assisting to promote many of the excellent objects for ffliiph itisfoundod. Those who openly sympathised,' with the strikers during the late trqujjlp were not, we consider, the 'real' friends of the labor party. Do they, not "say now that the movement was in. judicious,thathad they been consulted it woUd not have turned out such a fiasiS&jv and that from the first.they tec'ogmM that it to bound to fail. This is the tope that labor candidates like''Mr' Jellicoe j and Mr Fisher liave taken, : but it is one that does them little credit. intelligence and perspicablty their own ?uppori?Fg iuehijjg

into danger, oourting inevitable defeat arid suflfenng, why did they not at that time openly warn them to forbear, why did they not hoist a danger flag? The truth is that the stake was fermented and kept up by leaders of the party in the House, and in the press, who must have known what the issuo of it would be, and who hud not tho honesty or the courage to speak out .when remonstrance •might have done good semoe. The' true sympathisers and mends, of tho labour party are not thoso wlio led it into a trap, but those who. warned "the men of tho danger, and who will now we trust he willing to do all in. theic- power to help them out of the difficulties which beset them.