FREEDOM OF LABOUR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13664, 31 March 1908, Page 5

FREEDOM OF LABOUR.

— : AN ELOQUENT APPEAL. . <" By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Received March 31, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 31. The Employers' Federation has re- - solved that it is prepared to comer with strikers under, certain conditions. Mr Reid, referring to the strike, said trades unionism was one of the greatest developments in the way of safeguarding the rights of the people; but however good £heir object, there was a power above the employers arid the trades unionists — the power of the conscience of the whole community, which would not allow acts of intolerance and injustice. He compared the non-union-ists to the, 1 martyrs at the stake. -The "fires which had destroyed the maVfcyrs of old had lit the fire of liberty which ought to secure for men and women of the twentieth century the right to assert their freedom of choice in all lawful matters, t