THE GENERAL STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 60, 6 March 1912, Page 4

THE GENERAL STRIKE.

Dealing with the labour troubles w Inch threaten tho northern city, the Auckland “Star” says:—“To assert that a general .strike is inevitable, and that it is just and right for a small minority of workers to endeavour to penalise the whole community and to throw all the machinery of commerce and (industry out of gear to secure their ends, is indeed a bold saying, and tlibugh it is always possible to secure applause by rash generalisations of this sort alt a public meeting, the Federation of Labour will find that such sentiments, however loudly expressed, are not likely to bo endorsed by any effective body of public or industrial opinion. Wc need spend but little time in criticising syndicalism, for it has already been condemned in scathing terms by the most rational, the ablest, and the most widely respected of the world’s labour loaders. We hops that even the wrong-hcadpid enthusiasts who domin» ate thb Federation of Labour will see in time the wisdom of abandoning what Professor Mills well terms ‘the insanity of syndicalism,’ and wo have sufficient confidence in the saving com-mon-sense of the majority of our workers to believe that they will not allow themselves to be lured far along the road that leads inevitably to social chaos and industrial 'ruin.”