"A REVOLT"
SIR WILLLVM IRVINE'S VIEWS.
Sir William Irvine, at a meeting of the Women's National League in Melbourne last . week, characterised the strike as a revolt. It was, he said, a blow struck at the very foundations of tfie social fabric which gave them the liberties they possessed, and those who engineered such strikes were guilty of the blackest treachery against the country.' A National Parliament, bound as it was to .safeguard the welfare,of the nation, should not shirk the duty of bringing about the cessation of the power to do it. The commonwealth could adopt the\strongest measures to prohibit and stop strikes. If they were going to allow continual industrial strife they were unworthy to occupy positions as leaders of Australian life in the Federal Parliament.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 38, 14 August 1917, Page 7
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128"A REVOLT" Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 38, 14 August 1917, Page 7
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