THE COALMINERS’ STRIKE.

Mataura Ensign, 25 April 1917, Page 5

THE COALMINERS’ STRIKE.

TO TH* EUITOB.

Sir —According to the minors' state-1 moots, they ore striking as a protest to | the Conscription Act; but they do not; mention the power that is tfehuia them urging tiicni to this disloyal mention Oerma- influence. I do think we need look so far from home as that, hut 1 certainly think it is a pro{jennan intiuence and is represented by a certain section of the community which is working in many , ways to retard the, Empire in the winning oi the war. This same party has tried open rebellion and found it ot no avail, and is now trying more underhand ways, making use of the miners’ unions as a tool to carry out their plans. Seemingly the miners have not got the foresight to see who is leading them and where they are being led. T think it is quite time their eyes were opened to the tact that they are working for a party whose interests are opposed to a muted Empire. Surely the miners don’t realise that they are helping a nation which conceived such a ghastly horror as the corpse factory and from whom the Chinaman lias turned away with loathing. Is there no way of counteracting this influence that is at work in our midst, causing, friction at this time when every British subject should have only one thought, and that loyalty to the' Vmyinf-l a-, »« &NCORD April 23, 1917.