THE "UNITY" CAMPAIGN

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 38, 14 February 1913, Page 4

THE "UNITY" CAMPAIGN

SOCIALIST-LABOUB MOVEMENT. The, Post has received from the Unity Congress Committee a lengthy treatise by Mr. Edward Tregear on "The Need for Unity." The propagandist appeal for the Socialist-Labour fusion is not of sufficient general news interest ( to warrant publication in full. The principal paragraphs are :— "The United Labour Party, the Federation of Labour, the Socialist Party, the isolated and unam" Hated unions, the non-unionist workers— all these have for years been "warring, abusing, vilifying one another, while the Squatters' Bing, the Employers' Federation, the banks, the mining speculators, the capitalistic newspapers, the commercial trusts have only stopped looting now and then—to laugh. It is time that it ended. It is time that we understood our position, and that ■ we make them understand theirs. I seem to hear the glorious command of General Grant in the American Civil War : ' The whole line will advance ! ' "In six months' time you will have a chance to show if you really want unity in Labour or not. At the July Congress there will be an opportunity to every member of a trade, every advanced thinker, every variety of progressive economist to bring service'ana consolidation to the counsels of his fellows. The Labour laws you voted for, worked for, fought for, are being insidiously destroyed, and legislation that will purloin your heritage, cripple -your' activities, lessen your earnings, and bleed you white will be introduced "and made permanent unless you wake up and join hands with your brothers in the light of the new day and the new hope. Yes, we need unity now. "Shall we need unity in the future? Ay, and we shall not only need it, but we shall get it. We shall not always remain the fools of Time and the jests of cuhning knaves. _ If you need unity for yourselves, ten times more you need it for your children. You have toiled and denied yourselves, to bring up families for our admirable industrial and , commercial system to assimilate and consume. Deny yourselves a little while lougef, and .let your unity give those children a freer, cleaner, better life than you have ever had, Or fever possibly could have so long as you waste your strength ,in. fighting .your comrades, waste youi' votes in eledting your enemies to power, waste your substance in providing superfluities for the vulgar rich. Get together ! Get together ! ' The ' whole line will advance ! i