THE PELORUS GUARDIAN and Miners’ Advocate. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1917. MR FIELD AND THE MINERS

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 38, 18 May 1917, Page 4

THE PELORUS GUARDIAN and Miners’ Advocate. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1917. MR FIELD AND THE MINERS

We have heard many favourable comments on the excellent speech made by Mr T. A. Field, M.P., at the Miner's Hall, Wakamarina, last Saturday. His straightout and fearless references to 1.W.W.-ism are more likely to gain the respect and support oi: the miners than if he had side-tracked the subject as one likely to lead to discord and disorder. Mr iFeld's plain and unvarnished statement of the destructive policy of the organisation known as the I.W.W. has given the miners something to ponder over. He made it plain that for any union of workers to object to compulsion—ns shown in the opposition to the Conscription Act —was illogical, for the dominate note in ail the clauses of their own construction was compulsion. He brought forth arguments showing the absurdity of the claims of the more extreme socialist class who set out that Labour produced all wealth. Some of the facts which he left to be digested had probably never before entered the heads of some of his hearers. MiField’s statement in his opening remarks that he had polled only ten votes in that portion of his electoiate cannot be accepted as an indication of his present standing in the Wakamarina, and we predict a far greater measure of support —even from the miners—at the second time of asking.