A GENERAL STRIKE.
Sir, —With your permission I •wish to answer some of " Practioal's" remarks ro a general strike. Ho states some officials of unions wish and threaten to paralyse New Zealand. If "Practical" belonged to any union he wculol know that it is not the officials who rule by themselves, but the members of the unions that give these officials their orders. If " Practical" is in doubt about this paralysing, let lira look to England for his result. Did the directors run the trains, or get up their own coal, or weave their own cloth, or run the tram cars? Not at all. " Practical" is far from j the key of the situation, for he again asserts I that the strikes would affect the workers j most. To some extent this is true, and if they had to share also the profits of their labour surely -this is also logical, and they themselves by this process would do without strikes. If workers and families should suffer they have only their chains and fetter.? to lose. G. H. Edwabds.v Newton.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14929, 29 February 1912, Page 4
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180A GENERAL STRIKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14929, 29 February 1912, Page 4
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