Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1920. BRITAIN'S STRIKE ENDS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4130, 30 October 1920, Page 2

Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1920. BRITAIN'S STRIKE ENDS.

''inu good news Las come over tuo cauies tnat tne miners of Great iiriuun are resuming work, tUauks to tno patience and persistency ol i'reliuer iiioya Ueorge, who luus scores anocnor personal triumph m leadersnip and spacecraft. Ut course, it will me said tuao tne miner iias scored, m securing wie Xα increase. .but tnat over was maoe to and refused by tuem ueiore tne strnte. Iney also burned uown tne datum (01 increase oi ouofjup;—-yex. that tlioy have aovv eouceueu. me tact is, ixouert bmiine ana ma executive of direct actiomsts onougnt uiey'nad politicians and puolic uiiJie in tneir graap ; but, most of mi, Liiey tnougnt, tney nau only to uown tools anu tne woruers oi the Wiiuie 01 xjntaiu would come out also, ouiotu- was lent to tnis supposition oy luo eagerness of the ranwuymen to mm in alter tiie strike wad on. .but it, was quickly recognised Dy Uie leader* oi tne workers tnat tney were not playing on a good wicket,; because cuey wei-e not playing cricket. it, wua as unpopular a strike as it whs uuueoorisaiy. me terms so quickly acct'piyd by the uimws prove this, iiut Liiero must have been contribuciug cuuiCß u> &o rapid a breakdown oi a strike tuut was planned originally as not only a national, but an international strike. It seems to us that there were a number ol happenin its which influenced the defeat of XfruSa* -Bolsheviks, of Uritain. For one thing,.revolt against Leninism has begun at its headquarters in Jγ so Dhat, with Moscow, unOex SaSai law, it is a sad reflection upSn the tenets of Socialism and Oon> muniam that militarism ebould have to be employed to bolster up f° ls fJT vism. Tneu the world-wide plot teU in Even the New Zealand miners, who were breathing fire-and-brunetone

threats against the community, have gone back to work quietly Was it merely coincidence that they went back with the failure of the Council of Action to make good (or bad) in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and America? The firm-handed policy in each of these countries achieved the breaking down of the Direct Actionists, Britain's protective measure being the passing of the Emergency Powers Bill, under winch the British Government can do what America and Germany live been doing for some time—deporting the trouble makers in the industrial centres. It is a pity the New Zealand Government does not do likewise. That prevention is bettor than cure is proved once again in England, where the unnecessary strike of coalminers has not only held up industries and thrown millions of men and women out of work, but caused the railways a loss of between two and three million pounds per week, which has to be made good by the already heavily-burdened taxpayers. It is highly gratifying that such a deplorable condition of things has ,:been settled.