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The Review or Reviews. 



Mabcii, igi2. 



of light on Mr. Fisher's standards of excellence 

 and right. In view of the situation, of all that 

 has been told already, the wild lawle.ssness that 

 began to be exhibited, it is incomprehensible that 

 Mr. Fisher should "be pleased." Fortunate for 

 him it was that the Queensland Government grasped 

 the trouble like it did. Otherwise violence would 

 inevitably have resulted. Fortunate for him that 

 tl:e Queensland Government promptly ordered every 

 hotel bar to be closed. Fortunate for him that 

 (^.leensland has drastic laws on the question of 

 holding public meetings in times of riot, and put 

 them into operation. In view of all that happened, 

 the imminent danger, and the need of the voluntary 

 constables, Mr. Fisher can not say the request was 

 not warranted. The fact that the strong force of 

 volunteers was necessary proves that it was war- 

 ranted. 



One canno't help feeling sorry for 



Independent the misguided men who follow so 



Workers' Union, implicity the guidance of the 



blind. Much need there is for the 

 Independent Workers' Union, which held its first 

 Conference during the month, and which was at- 

 tended by repre.sentatives from all the States. 

 Preaching its doctrine of industrial peace, and of 

 independence of thought, it is bound to " win its 

 widening way." For the principles it teaches are 

 high. It will by its very tendency become one of 

 the forces making for national righteousness. In the 

 mid.st of the turmoil caused by the preaching of the 

 disruptive doctrines of the lilatant unionists, the 

 voice of the Independent Workers proclaiming the 

 good new.s of industrial peace sounds like a new 

 evangel. Such things as these stand out in its pro- 

 gramme : — (0 The peaceful settlement of all Labour 

 jiroblems. (2) O'piposition to strikes, lock-outs, boy- 

 CDtting and picketing. (3) Recognition of the identity 

 of interest between employer and employee. (4) 

 Advancement of members' education. (5) To .secure 

 just return in wages for Labour given. (6) Assisting 

 mt-mibers in difficulty. (7) Equal opportunity for all 

 to the right to work - open sho]). (8) Rer'ogniticui 

 of principle of brr>therhood between man and man. 

 The meetings of the Congress were very success- 

 ful, and no wonder. There is a breath of boundless 

 expan.ses in a i)rogrammc like that. 



The South 



Australian 



Deleat, 



The other event that brought a kind 

 of mental convulsion to Australia's 

 watching ones was the result of the 

 South Australian elections. It is 

 quite possible that no army went out to batth' with 

 greater heart and stronger hopes of victory than the 

 Government of South Australia went to the polls. 

 They must ha\e been certain of victory to have 

 risked the chances that they held through being in 

 power. The men who are in oflict- can do much, and 

 certainly verv mucli more than thev can out of office. 



P/iOto.] [Iliiiiimrr and C 



UK. PE.\KK. 

 South Australia's New Premier 



., .itIilaUle. 



and it was a puzzle to the outsider why the much 

 was risked. Even brick works and timber yards 

 were small things compared with what they could 

 do. But then there remains always in any trouble 

 where a fight is to be resorted to in order to bring a 

 settlement, the confidence of victory. When men 

 are swaved by that, they take enormous risks. But 

 no one anticipated that a majority of two, which 

 the Labour Party held, would be turned into a 

 minority of ten. But that is what happened. The 

 dreision of the people makes the appeal that was 

 made to the Im,perial Government now seem more 

 (Hit of place than ever, considering the overwhelm- 

 ing declaration of the country against the policy 

 of the Government. The South Australian Labour 

 Party is made up of a singularly level-headed lot 

 of men, men of whom any party might be proud, 

 but thev sadly miscalculated the distance when they 

 ti.ok their fam'^us K-ap. 



Why the 

 Change ? 



Why the change in public oi)inion? 



Sewral reasons may be adduced. 



l'ii>l. ihf Brisbane strike was an, 



and at that time the strikers w'ere in 

 their mf>st aggressive altitude. They were carrying 

 an their intimidation in their most offensive v/ay. 

 .And South Australia rememl>ered — remembered how 

 she had been through a similar crisis only a little 

 time ago ; rememl)ereil that bu.siness places were 

 bovcotted, that vehicles were he'ld u)i in the .streets 

 and violence used to carry out the strikers' demands, 

 that trade was paralysed, and, mo.st damaging recol- 

 lection of all, that tile Gm-ernment, the guanlian of 



