The chief danger is that the strike may spread into
New South Wales and so on into the other States. Mr. McCormack is a determined man, and his attempts, so far vain, to organize a skeleton railway service make very real the threat of a general transport strike. He has reminded members of Parliament who are supporting the strikers that when they were elected they took an oath to abide by constitutional government. "If you do not keep that oath there must be a revolution. If a member gives allegiance to a body outside Parliament that can be the only result." Thus we see that all the issues of the General Strike here are exactly reproduced in Queensland under a Labour Government and under a Single Chamber parliamentary system. As we have often said, the enactment of declarations which will keep industrial disputes within the borders of constitutionalism would probably be a greater boon to a Labour Government in this country than to a Government formed by any other party.
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