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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1939, 23 December 1913, Page 4

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...,Ihe leaders of the Red Federation just now do not appeal' to be altogether a happy party. They arc looking for a _ scapegoat, and they seem to .have pitched on their President, Mn. W. T. Young, as well suited to the r01e... The very warlike Mn. Young, who took so prominent a part in the earlier stages of the strike, 'certainly was a very different person to the comparatively mild Mn. Young who figured in its closing stages. ■ But then circumstances had changed,' and ■ Ms, Young appears to have been a little more astute than; some of his fellow-leaders in tho'"strike movement in seizing the moment to "stand from under.'' Keadiiig between the lines .of ■' the disputation which is going on, if is quite clear that the strike leaders, amongst/ themselves, had openly recognised. for some time., past' that they : were-beaten. * Yet they kept their followers..in ignorance of the hopelessness of the position.'.' i:-Thc shortage of funds was the last-straw,''' and/Mr. Young,, very wisely,-no doubt, awoke to the, folly of needlessly , prolonging tho ■ agony.,We are' not-' in>a position to say'-how much -or -how little he deserves " the reproaches of ! his -fellow-leaders', but ifaean-bcitakcn.for granted that had ,:!io;.i,taken";.:iny other course than Jie 1 would probably* have 1 been tin '..rfstill ■■'niore' position liiinijthat,; in.; t >vhiclft*lic4«no\v.';'finds hiin:.!'!?..';. It- would have... been a 'iiuieir harder: wrench 'for. him - to -sac:vific'o':\lh('^sccretivryship-'- of -the local J?ranHijVif j! he? Senmcir's.lUnion»than 'Sii'nylihfiHiMi Xtiief!oflice^bf. President , »nd n ho did ci'iv>."f'fs- : 'n;i;&HKn,.t:>hcnifi have iilieai^ai-tpjsiiffer^the-'greater

10.-s. / Ih.; any" ease no clonbt reg-uus hifi:s<'!f as ;t match for i^ftSJJi^KEYj^r|Mn^Ppwgri.\v or"'an y ■Bt[i(y2'ol3th(!^F < ;^(n'ati6n&lc ! aclcrs/anrl now /thai. he.- h:;s resigned hislofliec •. a 5... the ir . P.re'sitie 111 • Il.\ey ; !i«ve - lost their paver ovor him.. / AW. may <:x----jpect.so 1110,ta 1 l,.ta 1 Icf=- from both 'sections day or two, but up tu the/present. the. exrP resident lias hiid'tthc* bestiof^the'''argument. ■ The federation: 4 'has ,; ' nothing '.to console ■it for-its-defcatf whereas' Mr. Young still holds his,.paid ofiiec in tiic-.Soii-weii's Union.• „•■.