A LAST WORD

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 38, 14 August 1917, Page 7

A LAST WORD

In a manifesto to the railway •workers, issued on 9th August, the Acting-Pre-mier said : — '■

The Government has not Up to the present introduced any special legisla^ tion or interfered with your Strike Committee. We felt confident that during the .week you would realise your mistake and go back to work. It should' be clear to you now that there is something behind this strike you were not aware of last Thursday. Mr. Buckley, M.L.A., and other extremists now publicly boast that the card system lias little to do with the strike, and that what they wanted was a revolt against the Government. You are being grossly and? wickedly, misled by your leaders. ) Tho Taylor or any other system of: speeding up will not be introduced: into our railways! ' There is to be no increase in the 1 cost of supervising work. The rights of the old raiiway servants are not to be cut down or interfered with. The Government has not made, and never had.any intention of making, an j 'attack on unionism. _ v . ' ' It ony asserts that Government employees should not go on strike. Remember that many of you are on

strike in violation of your union rules, which provide for a ballot before the declaration of a strike. Why have your rules been scrapped by a strike cpmmitee?

Save your unions from destruction. Come back to work this week as unions, not next week as a rabble.

Increasing numbers of workmen are coming back \every day. There are four times as many trams and trains running to-day as on Tuesday. You cannot 1 fight the overwhelming weight of public opinion, which is against you. In your own interests be^t your places at starting time to-morrow (Friday). . To-day is the last day for you to consider your position. Think what it means if you are not at work tomorrow morning. • . ' [As to what happened on Friday last the cables have been silent.]