THE FEDERATION OF LABOUR POLICY.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14842, 6 December 1913, Page 12

THE FEDERATION OF LABOUR POLICY.

(SPECIAL TO "THE PBESS. ,, ) WELLINGTON, December 5. The officers of the Federation of Labour are alleging that the United Federation of Labour formed in July of this year, has no connexion with its predecessor which copied the preamble of the I.W.W. The fact is that it is a reorganised Red Federation, practically unchanged. .Its main aims and objects are the same, the leaders are the same, and it has tho same official organ. Its present constitution states:—Object (1): To organise systematically and scientifically industrial union on a. basis of order, and to assist to overthrow the capitalist system, and thus■ bring about a Co-operative Commonwealth based on industrial democracy.Another clause states. "The United Federation of Labour shall be allied to the Trado Union;movement throughout the world, and shall become affiliated to the International Secretariat at Berlin, the headquarters of the International Trades Union Movement. It will'; specially enter into the closest possible relations with- the.. Trades Union Movement within, or bordering the waters of the Pacific." • <

•The official organ declared editorially, last week: ','We are revolutionists, we shall not rest until the workers themselves own and -control the means whereby they live. It'must be war .utii> .victory crowns efforts and he no peace,.but an armed-truce. We ehall ultimately triumph, .even in a war to ,theehd.". '•'■■ - .- ■ ••■•■-.• .■'■' --'