THE WORKERS' CAUSE
"UNREASONING BRUTE FORCE.'?
(PIE PEEBS ASSOCIATION —COPTEiGHT.]
SYDNEY, January 28. In his address to the Australian Workers' Union conference Mr Spence said that the Brisbane, New Zealand and South African strikes showed that the ruling classes tyrannised over the workers by using unreasoning brute force, sometimes bludgeoning people to death. Therefore some of those wild-brained men advocating a universal strike ought to learn that until labour got control of the parliamentary and other machines brute force would be employed to crush the unions.
It was due, he said, to the big unions getting together that the threatened spread of the New Zealand strike was prevented. This would be followed by the establishment of a constitution which would bring together all in as large a union as practical controlling the force of workers in Australia.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1914, Page 5
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