BOLSHEVISM IN AUSTRALIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16350, 12 February 1921, Page 9

BOLSHEVISM IN AUSTRALIA.

SERIOUS INDUSTRIAL' POSITION. BITTER FIGHT IN PROCRESS EMPLOYER V. EXTREMIST. By Tolsgrapi—Press Association —Copyright-. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 12, 9 a-m.) SYDNEY, February 12. The “ Dailv Telegraph.” in a. special, article dealing with the industrial position, savs tho general public fails to realise that there is now in progress one of the bitterest Industrial struggles in the history of Australia. On the one side ;>re the employers, who are determined, if industry is to live in country, that it shall be free from tne unreasoning hut, deliberate obstruction from which it has suffered during recent years. On the other side are the dupes of the industrial extremists, whose sinister and calculated purpose is to wreck the existing economic system. and put, Bolshevism in its nlace. The legitimate trade unions and federations nr© placed in an unenviable position botweer* these contending forces. “The Daily Telegraph” adds thfit the present position in the shipping strike means that, for the first time in Australia, a bodv of employers is making a frontal attack on the industrial methods which tho younger workers have learned from the IndependentWorkers of the World. Bolsheviks and other fanatics, and nre seeking to put into ’effect. A similar fight is rapidly developing between the coal miners nnd the coal owners. Tli© newspaper publisher a. list of fifty strikes in five weeks, which oocurin the northern coalfields. and the position is similar in the southern coalfields. The mine-owners declare fTiafc they will he compelled t.o take ? 11 n *?- of action which they are. unwilling to T nkc. unless there is soon some improvement in the position. Tqe employers claim that the fight- is not being put un against unionism. Tho modern employer is willing to assist craft unionism in everv possible way if it can secure industrial peace. Tho whole tendency is to give tine worker ns big an interest in bis work as possible. Tho fight is against Bolshevism, nnd is being made as much on behalf of the community generally ns for the employers, who Took to the pnblic generally. and tli© solid body of workers for assistance.