"SHORT-LIVED LICENSE"

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 106, 31 October 1913, Page 8

"SHORT-LIVED LICENSE"

A SYDNEY PAPER'S OPINION MEN OF THE ROYAL NAVY , SHOULD NOT BE USED. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received October 31,' 10.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Daj. The Sydney Morning Herald says : "At the present moment the Wellington Btrikers' are enjoying short-lived license, but there are already collecting in the country at the back certain solid bodies of horsemen which within a day or two will probably have considerably altered the complexion of affairs, - The strikers are sufficiently numerous to render the earliest detachments impotent, but it is. only a question of hours before they will find themselves faced by a very different problem and. men who are in no", mood to have their free passage interfered with by anybody. If the New Zealand Government is wise it will leave matters in these hands. If the authorities keep their heads, they will not for a moment attempt to avail themselves of the help of men of the Royal Navy in the settlement of an industrial dispute. Admittedly, the authorities have the right to call in that aid in face of physical force, but it is a right to be exercised only in the last> resort, and with the utmost caution. Nothing short of danger to the lives of innocent, defenceless persons, the apprehension of grave injury to women and children, incendiarlsm ashore, the blowing up of ships, or similar outrages, could justify the use of naval seamen during the progress of an Australasian strike.