"SLOW WORK."

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 55, 2 September 1916, Page 10

"SLOW WORK."

References by Mr. Justice Hoydon to the alleged, introduction of " sabotage " and "go-slow" methods in Australia have excited much attention, not only in tho Commonwealth, but also in NewZealand. In tho Commonwealth, Labour leaders and newspapers have condemned most strongly _ the advocacy of such methods, as being inimical to the cause of Labour and the welfare of the whole community. Tho Sydney Daily Telegraph, which is in no way a Labour paper, says in regard to this subject: "Tlie amount of attention which is now given to tho go-slow policy might lead to the impression that it is a serious factor in Australian industrialism. Of course its advocates exist. It is doubtful, though, whether they number any sensible proportion of the manual •workers." This* might bo applied also to New Zealand. Here there are a few advocates of "go-slow" methods (as witness the I.W.W. '"stickers" which occasionally appea.r on lamp-posts), but these men and their doctrines are not taken _ seriously, except by a very small minority of workers.