WHAT WE MAY EXPECT.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14308, 20 March 1912, Page 10

WHAT WE MAY EXPECT.

TO THE EDITOIt OF "THE TRESS." Sir, —So you have climbed down from the position you took up on tho subject of the Railway Servants and Federation of Labour in your Saturday's issue! Many of us wondered how that sub-leader cot into that issue wherein you congratulated the railway servants for joining the Mills's unity schemo. Now you seem to have discovered that Mills's scheme is also "syndicalism," just tho same as tho Federation of Labour. You aro quite correct, it is "syndicalism," only tho difference v between the two organisations is that tho Federation of Labour says honestly what they aro after, and tho' other scheme, by the use of a long.rigmarole of words, tries to wrap it.up and disguise it and make it appear someth.ng else. You call it "syndicalism," and we don't want to quarrel - with _ words or terms, only the averaso man in the street understandsitto mean industrial unionism, and you can't keep it back. You may certainly check it by the methods employed by Mayor Parr.- of bribe tho workors with •& little better conditions, but, like-tho wolves following ithe sleigh, • they'll come for more. You can check it for a while by allowing and helping a few of your selected Labour men to get into Parliament, but you can't, put all the workers into Parliament, so, those not iv aro still going on with the fight. You seem to think the railway servants are enjoying vast privileges over other workers; then why not all workers Jie under the same system? No, you know those men are enjoying no greater privileges, as a class, than they would under private employ I Your . class is in charge, of them and you have mado their services of such a nature that they' haven't even the privileges of an ordinary garden navvy like mc. You threaten them with the loss of their superannuation if they dare mention the word strike. You seem to forget that this, is a fund they have to provide themselves and then yon talk of robbing them of it! And it is because, off this, "Syndicalism " is making such rapid'strides. You seem glad that Mr Hampton and Mr McCullough . have repudiated the general strike, but I would adviso you not to get too cocky i You gaol a few more boys, tinder the compulsory military scheme and I'll bot you'll find Jack McCullough in the front rank leading the revolt. You havo got him for a little whilo by your arbitration gag, but you won't hold him if you go much further, he's too much of a man. Semplo is gone to Australia to join up tho forces there, you know what that moans? a nod is as good as a wink. Syndicalism is here, so you can make up your mind we mean business. —I am, etc., E. J. HOWARD. [While we hope our readers will duly noto the contonts of this epistle, we do not think it needs any reply. We ought to point out, however, that while the Railway Servants contribute to the Superannuation Fund it is subsidised by the State, and the. State is expected to',mako up any deficiency.—Editor "The : Press."] • -; ;, ■ _