THE IMPENDING LABOUR CRISIS.

Grey River Argus, 18 January 1912, Page 6

THE IMPENDING LABOUR CRISIS.

A UNIONIST'S OPINION

(Per Press Association.)

WANGANUT, Jan. 17. Speaking at a. social tendered tb Mr W. A. Veitoh, M.P., by the local Labour Party, Mr. W. Lee Martin, a well-known local unionist, referring to- the .persistent- rumours of a great impending strike, warned workers of the danger of attempting to redress their grievances by strikes, instead of

'■\- legislation!. He regretted to say that he had roason to believe that we were on the eve of a serious industrial crisis in this coumitry and he feared that tihe near future would show .that some p"f the men who had been entrusted with responsibilities were not men who should be given them. He did not think that the right! to strike should 'be takan away, but, all the same, he did not believe in strikes unless every other possible remedy had been -axhaustJed, 1 and they should i only be regarded as the very last resource. Strieks would merely be forerunners of evil, and doom the Labour party .and ho hoped ~%ati the- party. would travel, on legislative lines, rather than on strikes, for it; was by legislation! 'that it coufl'd achieve the best .results.