Excerpt from The Review of Reviews for Australia: March, 1912 Melbourne Felnuary 22. Australia has been stirred to its thgtsudden two. Depths during the month by, two te orm. Convulsions. Markable happenings - remarkable for the revelations they give of the trend of pub-lie thought on the question of industrial ism, and of the real position of the unionist party. They are the Queensland strike and the South Aus tralian elections. The Strike came almost like a bolt from the Clear sky. It was hurled upon us so hurriedly. Now that two or three weeks have elapsed, the fact of precipitation becomes more and more evident. The strike was the result of hot headedness and want of thought. The leaders are feather-weights, and lack all the elements of suc cessful advice. It is a standing marvel that workers are so often willing to follow without ques tion men who possess no qualities for leadership. Most of the strikes of Australia Counting have failed precisely because the the C03 unions neglected to take stock of their own powers and those of their opponents. And Queenslandunionism, imagining that all, the world was wrong because it was denied one small thing, saw red before its eyesklost its head, and ran amok. It forgot that the world is not to be won in that way. And that it threw aside the only potent forces that can produce. National up heavals towards the ik'st nationhood. And it has found, too, that its unworthy weapons are turned Upon itself. Had it counted the cost, the strike newr would have happened. One calls to mind the warning in Luke xiv. 28. Which mav be deemed as applicable in general principle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.