THE REVOLT OF LABOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14427, 21 July 1910, Page 5

THE REVOLT OF LABOUR.

I, TO FIGHT "HARDER THAN EVER." i; .. I • ~ jk-V Tee fact that- all the fight had been taken 1,, out of the workers of New Zealand by j V the enactment of the Workers Concilia- ■ tion and Arbitration Act was attributed By some of the speakers at last night's social to the Trades and Labour Conference delegates as .the reason why tie forces of Labour in this country had made Rich limited political - progress, as comBrethren in Australia*. .'"Bit," remarked the chairman of the Coirference, "the very Act that has taken 'if- the fight cut of the workers is being ad<'t ' .ministered in such an unsatisfactory mangfJ ner that it is going to make us fight harder than ever." He admitted that ■j 'they had to attribute their extensive ; organisation of unionism to the enactment |/r > of this measure, bub said that the in- - .-S'-v. creased. cost .of living, together with the fact that the workers were being de- ' prived of many privileges which they » -formerly secured under the Act, rendered & \-v? It imperative that the workers should* rise & W;™ force, and either see to the more p -■-Btisfactory enforcement of its provisions, t?• p/W have a-better measure placed upon the f. ? Statute Book. The company were exi 'Mjl in'their approval of this senti- | Menti •