ROYALTY AND LABOUR

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 22

ROYALTY AND LABOUR

THE POSITION IN'AUSTRALIA

No doubt need bo entertained about tho character .of tho welcome which Australia will give to the Duke and Duchess of York says the "Australasian." It will be a popular welcome and a popular demonstration of loyalty to the Throne. Tho fact that the Trades and Labour Council of Syduoy has dcclarqd tho Royal visit "black" is of "0 significance, except that it shows that the council .is composed of ignorant and ill-manncrca men. Dukes and duchesses,' like all other men and women, will find boors and churls in evorv community. They aro a nuisance, but m Australia they are fow and uninflucntiul. Thoy aro not to our community what flies ■ a"ro to ■ tho ointment of the npothecary. Labour sympathisers generally are not only loyal but good mannered in tjielr troatment of distinguished guests. Responsible Labour bodies, too, with few exceptions, are tolerant oven of Royalty and not averse ■ from ceremonial observances. But a few madcap unions liko the Ado aide Tramwaymen's Union and that wild body in Sydney 'which the Rods" have captured (to no purpose because, as soon ns thp "Rods" cap turod it, it lost its influence) liko to show an independent spirit and to bo intellectual" by differing from the great mass of tho people. This is a pose, and not nn oxpresison/of public Sj?7 °l o£ ■«•« "Pinion of anything worth calling a section of tho public.