THE NEW SOUTH WALES STRIKE PENALTIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 31, 5 February 1910, Page 9

THE NEW SOUTH WALES STRIKE PENALTIES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Re action of Wade Ministry, to which the resolution passed last Wednesday by the Trades and Labour Council refers* I wish to say a word; but co shattered are my preconceived ideals of right and justice, not to speak of liberty, by this latest and most brutal act of a crowd of traitorous politicians, t"hat speech fails mc. To find in the 20th century men true and loyal to their class being thrust into prison for that same loyalty passes my comprehension. Mr. Editor, the action is worthy of a revolution, and in any country less favourably placed from the suffrage standpoint, I would counsel such, for a little blood spilt in so holy a cause as that of liberty would bo well shed. But Australia has in her hand the material for a bloodless revolution, and let us fervently hope that at the next election labour will cause such an one that our industrial owners shall quake. I pray earnestly that the Australian workers will eend such a number of their class to Parliament that the fetters of "industrial slavery" will be shattered for all time in one country at least—l am, etc., W. S. MOXSOM.