FOREIGN AGITATORS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 288, 9 November 1925, Page 8

FOREIGN AGITATORS.

EARL PAGE’S CRITICISM

ALIEN WRECKERS

SYDNEY, Oct. 26

Trenchant criticism of foreign agitators marked Dr Earle Page’s address to a large audience at West Wyalong on Saturday night. He claimed that the record of the composite Government was one of clean administration and constructive legislation. “The Government has faced and solved in a practical manner the urgent problems before the country, lie went on. “Its programme at the present time is a national and comprehensive one designed on the broadest lines. The Government asks tor support of its programme to secure regular and profitable employment for its people. It is a question as to whether all the progressive efforts that have been made for Australian development, for the improvement of Australian conditions of life and work, for a continual increase of Australmn Reduction, and for the general betterment of Australian citizens, shall lie rendered futile by alien wreckers with their pernicious cloctrineso of industrial strife, direct action, go-slow, and job control.

LAW OR “VIOLENCE.”

“It is a question as to whether a small minority of extremists are to be permitted to worm their way into and white-ant trade unionism m this country and the system of collective bargaining on which both trade unionism and modern industry are built. The issue is as to whother the law made by the representatives of the people of this country in their Parliament shall continue, or whether the dictates of a few foreign agitators trying tho Itussian methods of direct action, mob rule and violence shall control the activities of this country.” The electors were to determine as to whether in the future there shall be prosperity and progress or poverty and decay, whether arbitration or direct actiofi shall be the guiding principle of our industrial system, whether tho rule of the majority or the dictatorship and tyranny of a few shall prevail, whether goodwill and cooperation shall be the guiding star of our national policy and sentiment or whether discord and hatred shall be allowed to disrupt our country, whether right and reason shall prevail, or whether might, violence and passion shall have sway.