INDUSTRIAL ENMITY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4711, 8 November 1917, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL ENMITY.

A JUDGE ON CLASS HATRED

SYDNEY, October 3. On Mondoy Mr. Justice Heydon ruled against certain conditions sough* to he imposed on the employees by the employers in the wool and basil industry in connection with re-em-ployment after the recent strike. IDs Honor said he thought it was a dreadful mistake for employers to try to coerce their employees and to deprive them of their legal rights. The victories gained by such means would, in the long run, have most disastrous consequences. He would say deliberately that a very large proportion of industrial evils had their root in class hatred and distrust. If employer and employee had full mutual confidence and goodwill toward each other, with honest and generous co-operation we would hardly recognise our dear country of Australia. Every Australian who helped to bring about such a reconciliation was doing good work—so good that there could hardly be better. Both sides were to iblame, no doubt, for the present evils, and no attempted cure would be of much avail unless there was a cure of the heart. With that, other changes would be largely unnecessary; without it they would be largely useless.