DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16947, 9 November 1926, Page 6

DAY BY DAY.

Tho Red clement was in high feather at a recent meeting of Tho Reds the Dominion Trades In and Labour Congress in Canada. Montreal. Tho speeches were illuminating, and show to what length the more sober and moderate clement of Iho Labour Party may, under tho strong impulse and through the faulty knowledge and mistaken judgment of the extremists, eventually be driven. According lo "one commentator at the meeting, it was a regular "Bolshevist picnic" that some of the delegates were recommending. The advocacy of these men, and others of the same stripe, throws a lurid light along tho path it urges the executive committee "not to fear to tread," and the measure of tho mis • chief with which it menaces the country may be estimated by the length it would go, first in contempt of the laws of the land, and then in disobedience of all rules and orders of the country's courts of law. Thus spake Delegate Tim Buck, of Toronto: "We must flghl the injunctions against picketing. We will get rid of injunctions when it becomes more costly to the employers, and the only way to make it more costly is to light the injunctions—and that will be by doing as in New York, where the strikers have ignored the injunction." Delegate Hayes declared that the talk of ••peaceful picketing" was a joke, and thus (says a Canadian paper) frankly acknowledged as a fact what many trade unionists had controverted. No picketing can in any real sense of the word be peaceful. Whilst such revolutionary ideas prevail in one wins of the Canadian Trades and Labour Congress, it is well the expression they arc allowed to have should be widely known. Of course, they will be repudiated by the rank and file of the Congress, as similar, lliough perhaps not quite so radical, views previously j expressed both in Canada and the United States have been disclaimed on behalf of the more conservative classes of labour in the international organisation. But the meeting is plain indication that the poison is spreading. Serious mischief can be the only outcome unless, in the interests of rational trade unionism tho Communist faction is soon to be disowned, rejected, and thrown off entirely.