HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12392, 13 December 1909, Page 5

HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?

CAN HOLD OUT FOR MONTHS. Mr Hutton (one of the northern delegates to the strike congress), and Mr Burns (treasurer of the Miners' Amalgamation) contend the strikers can hold out. nnd will hold out, for months if necessary. ! " Why," said Mr Hutton to a " Sydney Morning Herald " interviewer last '■

i week, " we have been going into training for this for the last 12 months. ] Work lias been so slack and the conditions forced on us by the proprietors havo been so hard that it has prepared i us. You don't know how long men n"n inst when they are determined. In the great strike in the Midland counties in England about 15 years ago, in the time or the Featherstone riots, we were out for 17 weeks, and we had very little support. There were 150.000 miners' out, .md towards the end- of it they ncr-x livine on e^ts or anything. Then, again, there was the Scotch stviiie in loy-j. Sixteen weeks the men were out,- and they had scarcely a. , penny of help. Fifpshire and Clack- ' w simian spent about £30,000. The rest of- Scotland had to depend on those two counties fov their support. Sixteen 1 weeks they stood out. I was in the North of En eland myself at the same time. That -shows clearly how men can ' stand out when they take it into their her.ds."