THE STRIKE RUMOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 3005, 18 October 1911, Page 64

THE STRIKE RUMOUR.

PROFESSOR MILLS INTERVIEWED. CFBOM OU» OWS ConEESPOHDEIfT.> AUCKLAND, October 13. Professor Mills was seen by a reporter this morning in regard to the strike rumour. He stated that while he had not heard the matter mentioned by any man associated with Labour, it did not mean that a general strike was not a possibility. He was doing everything he possibly could to avoid anything of the sort, but if a general strike was to be avoided at .some time in the near future, in his judgment the Arbitration Court would have to be reconstructed, and political rights guaranteed to all working people, including the right to vote, to participate in public discussion, to be candidates for any office, and to hold office without regard to sex or occupation, and whether an employee of any part of the people, as in the case of a civil servant. T*ne Professor further stated that the campaign in which he had been engaged for some weeks, and which was being given splendid support on the part of the trades unions throughout the country, was an effort, among other things, to create such an organisation as would be able by the use of its political power to secure the ends enumerated. If the movement was sufficiently supported they would certainly be able to produce such results. If it was not, then they would all have to take their chances with less rational pro-t grammes, with what, he feared, more serious consequences, not only to the peace of society, but to all rational forms of Labour organisation and activity.