REPLY TO "JULIAN."

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2855, 30 October 1890, Page 2

REPLY TO "JULIAN."

TO THE KUITOU. Silt, —Heading in to-day's issue "Julian's" letter on the Maritime strike, and as 1 read it on the strikes generally, one feels prompted to ask, does the writer believe his own panegyric, or expect others to. The best comment on his adulation is to be found in your Ngaruawahia Police Court news, recording the wilful damage of mining plant, and furthor in your Sydney news, of wholesome destruction of both public and private prepeity, not to mention tho frequent reports of intimidation and brutal violence, which angry passions have produced. Where does the "too noble" conduct and the "sulf-sacrih'ce" come in there, I wonder. As to writing of coining to the rescue of the oppressed here in the working man's paradise it is simply ludicrous.

"Julian" must be poking fun. The fact is the so-called "working-man" has been for long past so potted and fussed over by stump orators and catch vote politicians, that he has been led to think the world would come to a standstill without him. However, the result of tho great strike has evidently been an eyo opener, and lot us hopo the experience will have a salutoiy effect. However the sturdy and well-paid Colonials could accept help from the impoverished and needy dockers of East London, passes my comprehension, and gives the stamp of meanness to the leaders. There is nothing to be said agaiust trades uniting for mutual advantage, or of any number of men voluntarily abstaining from work, except on their own terms, if thoy think lit, but when they say to a fiilluivworker, you shall not work either except on our terms, or wo will make it hot tor yon, why I s:;y that society by its mouth piece, the law, should promptly step in and crush down any such tyrannical conduct. Where is our boasted freedom, our colonial independence, if every niun may not be free tomako his own contract, and market his own labour. Having shaken ourselves free from tho social tyrannies of the old world, let us beware lest wo allow ourselves to be taken captive by a modern, but no less, a tyranny though under a specious guiso. Daylight. 25th October, 1890.