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Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 February 1913, Page 3

A story which comes from a reliable source, and is now circulating in Auckland, is told to the effect that two craft union officials calling themselves “evolutionary socialists, ” who are also mental scientists, were discussing with a third union official their chances of an improved award, wriien one of them, addressing the third official, said: —“It’s a pity you are

not a mental scientist also, we could then all three concentrate our will-power on Judge Sim, and compel him to give our union 44 hours at Is. all parliamentary socialists are not mental scientists too, they could then —when they get the majority —all concentrate in unison on the capitalist class and compel them to hand over the means of production; they would have no need for an industrial organisation: expropriation would he easy.

The “No God, No Master/’ poster, which was exhibited in Lawrence, has been reproduced in an Auckland (N.Z) capitalist paper.

Pel low-worker Patrick. who worked so hard on the Protest Committee during the Waihi strike, had his leg badly crushed at the waterfront recently. It is said there was great difficulty in getting accommodation for the ambulance aparatus some time ago. It is remarkable, what a lot of accidents there are, many of them preventable. Hardly a day but what there are two or three serious mishaps, and many of them prove fatal. Shorter hours mean steadier nerves. The boss won’t trouble much about this; you’ll have to do it yourselves.

Wanted, someone who was a member of Ghris’tchurch (NJAj, I.W.W. lowd to communicate wth Editor, Industrial Unionist.

J. B, King, late of N.Z., is requested to communicate with Editor, Industkul Unionist.