THE LABOUR STRIKES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8871, 2 September 1890, Page 2

THE LABOUR STRIKES.

OPINIONS OP THE PRESS. The Sydney Morning Herald says :—": — " Let this conflict be fought out to " the .bitter end," and the first element of bitterness will be found in the waste of capital, tho taste of which will give character to the food of the working-man for many a day. No great conflict like this can take place without causing a wicked waste of capital. • The consumption of £20,000 of strike pay is an unproductive consumption, becauso the money is consumed in idleness, and not in productive work. But, beyond that, it has positive effects. It is accompanied by more or less waste of capital on the other side, and thereby discourages the investment of other capital and checks the progress of trade. When 'the bitter end 1 comes, whichever side may boast of victory, 1 both will suffer from exhaustion, complete or incomplete." The New Zealand Times says:— "Tho Railway Commissioners and the Harbour Boards are bound to carry on the trade of New Zealand impartially. They owe no obedience to any power that has grown up in any part of the land and is minded to disobey the law. This fact the labour organisations must reckon with. If the fact is disastrous to them that is a thing they ought to have been alive to before they went out. Their grievance is not against the State or those who represent the State as managers of its trade. If they have a grievance in this matter it is against the heads of their organisation who have taken them into, the extremity of the conflict."