INGRATITUDE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 89, 10 December 1912, Page 4

INGRATITUDE.

One of the little peculiarities of Mr. Semple is the rapidity and dexterity with which he shifts his ground, says the Christchurch ‘Press.” While the Waihi strike was “on” wo were repeatedly told to look at the splendid financial support given by outside unions to the strikers, and to regard this as a proof of the solidarity of “elassconscious” Labour. But in a speech at Auckland after the strike had been declared “off,” Mr. Semple said that “the main cause of the strikers’ defeat was the lack of support received from the working class.” Seeing that othei unions sent £30,000 to Waihi at the bidding of the Federation leaders, Mr. Semple has added ingratitude to his other failings. And another remark, “that they expected no mercy from the employers, from the capitalistic organisations, or from the police, but they did expect it from the man who wore the dungarees,” recalls the line from “The Merchant of Venice”— “How shall thou hope for mercy, rendering none ?”