The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1913. THE OUTLOOK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 65, 17 November 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1913. THE OUTLOOK.

The messages to hand to-day from various parts of New Zealand show that the strike is breaking up, despite the frenzied efforts of the interested leaders to maintain to the contrary. The majority of those who are out are bitterly'sorry'that they were ever placed in such a false position and are anxious to return to work at the earliest possible moment. The large centres present a much more normal appearance. The Arbitration unionists are increasing in numbers and a considerable number of men from thd ranks of the strikers have seceded from a federation they never desired to belong to, and have applied for enrolment in the hew union. The United Labor Party ms now come out openly on the side of law and order, and issued a manifesto urging all the unions as- 1 scxaated with it to keep aloof from! the strike. ' Though it may be said I that this body might have taken useful action earlier, it is certain itsj I present step is a wise one, and will! have a good effect, for it is in the I best interests of the workers as awhole, and it may tend to convince I the strikers themselves of the folly! *iud uselessness of continuing the struggle further against certain defeat, lor they can have no chance' whatever with the full tide of pub-' , lie feiding and public opinion dead against them. |