"HOPELESS FROM THE FIRST."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 23 December 1913, Page 8

"HOPELESS FROM THE FIRST."

v {Received Dec. 23, 12.30 p.m.) ■i. : SYDNEY, Dec. 23. Mr D. Watson has been re-elected proiSent of the Northern.Colliery Employees' Federation. In a speech he »aid thit the news that the New ZeaUni strike was over had been received '- witli^ a.Wense of relief, as from its cbm- . n^ehcement "we regarded it as hope- ; less, inasmuch as no intimation was rewived oh this side of thef water unt\V it was apparent that defeat- was staring; •them In the face. 1' The disastrous ' siragde in New- Zealand has demon«trate4 to the workers of Australia .thp necessity for an organisation in which the united wisdom of the various unions and may be directed... towards any trouble arising in the industrial field. % •■■■■".■■■-■■ •.■■.•■.■. ..•■