THE STRIKE AND BOYCOTT.
TO THE EDITOR. Sik, —In your issue to-day reporting a resolution of the gas. employees, ic was shown that they are going to use the "infernal boycott" once more over this bootmakers' strike. It is a pity they have not learned a lesson from the past. The boycott during the great strike in September failed, and led to the Union Shipping Company finally boycotting unionists — refusing to engage unionists, aud thus fighting them with their own v/eapons. Boycotting leads to counterboycotting, aud already one large factory here in the boot trade is said to have decided to work in future only with free labour. That is just what we ought to try to avoid. Injury and retaliation will do much harm, and unless good counsels prevail and this boot strike be promptly settled, numbers of families will have their Auckland homes broken up and have to seek work in the South, where they will not find living scheap or the climate so genial as in Auckland. As an onlooker I advise a settlement, and must say that the strike and boycott will do much harm to the men, who with such a light heart are entering on a course they do not ses the end of- —I am, &c, Well-Wisher.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8530, 2 April 1891, Page 3
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214THE STRIKE AND BOYCOTT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8530, 2 April 1891, Page 3
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