The wanderings of a spiritualist . he hashis difficulties before him. We of the old countryshould never forget that these difficulties have beenpartly caused by his splendid participation in the greatwar, and so strain every nerve to help, both by anenlightened sympathy and by such material meansas are possible. Personally, I have every sympathy with all reason-able and practical efforts to uphold the standard ofliving in the working classes. At present there isan almost universal opinion among thoughtful andpatriotic Australians that the progress of the countryis woefully hampered by the cons
The wanderings of a spiritualist . he hashis difficulties before him. We of the old countryshould never forget that these difficulties have beenpartly caused by his splendid participation in the greatwar, and so strain every nerve to help, both by anenlightened sympathy and by such material meansas are possible. Personally, I have every sympathy with all reason-able and practical efforts to uphold the standard ofliving in the working classes. At present there isan almost universal opinion among thoughtful andpatriotic Australians that the progress of the countryis woefully hampered by the constant strikes, whichare declared in defiance of all agreements and allarbitration courts. The existence of Labour Govern-ments, or the State control of industries, does notseem to alleviate these evil conditions, but may ratherincrease them, for in some cases such pressure hasbeen put upon the Government that they have beenforced to subsidise the strikers—or at least thosesufferers who have come out in sympathy with the [256] 5^. THE WANDERINGS OF A SPIRITUALIST original strikers. Such tactics must demoralise acountry and encourage labour to make claims uponcapital which the latter cannot possibly grant, sincein many cases the margin of profit is so small andprecarious that it would be better for the capitalist towithdraw his money and invest it with no is clear that the tendency is to destroy the verymeans by which the worker earns his bread, and thatthe position will become intolerable unless the older,more level-headed men gain control of the unions andkeep the ignorant hot-heads in order. It is the youngunmarried men without responsibilities who create thesituations, an3 it is the married men with their womenand children who suffer. A table of strikes preparedrecently by the Manchester Guardian shows that morehours were lost in Australia with her five or sixmillion inhabitants than in the United Kingdom withnearly fifty million. Surely this must make the Labou
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