TYRANNY OF LABOUR.
_AS SEEN BY G. H. REID. \ £ t i S MARTYRS FOR LIBERT _T. i F (Eeceived 9.30 a.m.) _ SYDNEY, this day, Mr. George P-'id, referring to the strike said the trades union was one of t__ greatest developments in the way of safeguarding the rights of the people, _n± however good their object their power •was above that of the employers. The •power of conscience of the whole comjnjniitv would not allow acts of intolerance "and injustice. He compared the non-unionists to martyrs at the stake. . 3__e fires which destroyed the martyrs of old lit the fire of liberty which ought to . secure for the men and women of the twentieth century the right to assert their freedom of choice in all lawful jnatters.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 78, 31 March 1908, Page 5
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