FOLLY AND WASTE.

Northern Advocate, 16 February 1912, Page 5

FOLLY AND WASTE.

Mr Coyne, on behalf of the Strike Committee, has addressed a letter to the Employers' Federation stating that they are prepared to meet in conference with a view to arranging the resumption of work by .ill Unionists except the tramway men, whose case is before the Arbitration Court.

Hundreds gathered at the Trades Hall in place of thousands on previous days. The leaders did not address the gathering, which soon dispersed.

Most of the special constables are l.eing disbanded. The majority- declined to accept payment for their services.

The .Governor-in-Council has ordered the removal of the name of Joseph Col lings from the Commission of Peace. Collings was one of the strike leaders. MELBOURNE, Feb. 16. Mr O'Malley echoed Mr Griffiths' statement that the Brisbane strike was responsible for the defeat of the South Australian Government. He declared that strikes were economic waste. Unionists should give the money so wasted to the Labor Finance Committee to buy shares in industrial concerns, to acquire the interest necessary to elect Labor directors, and thus control Industry and regulate v. ages conditions. It was not preference to Unionists nor high wages which damaged the cause of Labor, but strikes, which could all be; averted Ly a few sensible men gathered round a table. Strikes were always settled at such gatherings, bur to the disadvantage of tbe workers.

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