A CURE FOR RED FEDISM.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2855, 28 January 1916, Page 2

A CURE FOR RED FEDISM.

Apropos of the anti-conscription con-ffj-ence that is at present in session in Wellington at the call of the Federation *f Labour—the anarchistic combination of I.W.W. Socialists — the Evening Post strikes out fairly hard with a quarter-column bludgeon of editorial at Red Fed ism. The article says: "These irreconcilable 'antimilitarists' are surely not the leaders whom Labour would choose at a time when the nation is at deadly grips with an enemy well armed and thoroughly trained for battle." And New Zealanders are well reminded that before the war there was a "roll of honour" in the official organ of the Federation of Labour—the list of young men who had refused to do their share of military training for the national safety. To which the Post adds: "And this is the kind of leadership which offers itself to the workers in these days when the country has to make the best possible uso of its men and material against the German nation that aspires to a destruction of British freedom." But, after all, to go back to first prinw-

pies, who is it that has mado the Federation of Labour something that hue to be 'thus noticed by our loading evening paper? The responsibility for the development of the Red fed. rests with the three Wellington pupore. They vied with each othor in rushing the Red Feddor into print— they gave him such a vast amount of freo advertising that to-day ho is in a position to hold a Dominion conference on unti-eonscription and cracks tho whip which makes sonio weak-kneed unions lino up with him lit his call. His conference is being hold bohiml closed loors, and ho is only going to let tho outsido world know, Kaiser-like, just what ho wants it to know. Rod Fedisiu is Kaiserism. After his conference in Wellington, tho Rod Fed. is going to issue an anti-conscription manifesto. He can't help that, for all his ways and thoughts are anti. What ho will decide iv camera is obvious. But supposing tho Wellington and every other influential daily paper refused to publish that manifesto. Supposing tho Press Association refused to send it over tho wires. Silence is tho golden weapon to kill Hod Fedism.