SYNDICALIST METHODS

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 34, 9 February 1914, Page 5

SYNDICALIST METHODS

INSOLENCE AND VIOLENCE. A UNIONIST'S DENUNCIATION. CLAIMS OF THE LABOUR PARTY. NO EVIDENCE OF CONSPIRACY (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) CAPETOWN, February 7. Mr. Pereival Smith, a son of Mr. Justice Smith, appeared at the .bar of the House yesterday on behalf of the deported men. He recalled the trials of Dinizulu and Cetewayo before a Special Court, and denied any analogy between the Cole caee and the present case. The deported men bore exemplary characters, and there -was no evidence of conspiracy, but a ma.se of evidence to the contrary. The men, he held, were entitled to *a proper trial, enabling them to bring rebutting evidence. Mr. Qninn (Unionist M.P. for Johannesburg) who, as a leading Rand baker, kept his establishment open for the supply of the Defence Force and free labourers, despite the Federation's orders and threats, thrilled the House - by his descriptions of the Syndicalist "methods of insolence and violence." He had seen one Tommy Atkins astride a horse with a {raping wound in his cheek, and yet sitting there never threatening to retaliate. Pointing to his fellow-members, Andrews and Madeley, whom the speaker described as notorious disturbers of the peace, preaching licence instead of liberty, Mr. Quinn asked why they were free, and added that had he been General Smuts he doubted if he would have taken the trouble to deport them. The country, he continued, was with the Government regarding martial law, but some disagreed with the deportations utterly. Nevertheless, he would rather walk out than vote against the Government doing the only thing which had saved society. Mr. P. Duncan declared that there was not a shadow of evidence that the situation was of such a gravity as to warrant the deportations. None of the speeches of the men had deserved- banishment for life.

Colonel Crewe said it was not the forces and not the Government which had made the strike unsuccessful, but public opinion throughout South Africa. It transpires that Kendall was not included in the deported, as the authorities were unable to capture him. SMUTS PROVES HIS CASE. AFRICAN PRESS OPINION. (Received 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, February 8. Renter's agency at Capetown says that practically the entire Press of South Africa is of opinion that General Smuts proved the case for martial law and the deportations. The Bloemfontein '"Friend" dissents. Fourteen of Bain's bodyguard were fined £15 or a month, the remainder being discharged. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. LONDON, February 7. The newspapers state that Mr. C. F. Masterm-an (Financial Secretary to the Treasury) will shortly succeed Mr. Sydiipy Buxt-on (President of the Board of Trade), who will be raised to the peerage, and replace Viscount Gladstone, who has long desireJ. so the story goes, to resign his position in South Africa.