New Zealand Notes.

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 6, 1 July 1913, Page 4

New Zealand Notes.

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The N.Z. Administration, on its formation, accepted the Constitution as issued by the General Office in Chicago. The following amendments—-proposed to meet national conditions —have been sanctioned by the members Article 11, section 1 : “ The number of signers required on application for charter shall not be less than 20.” Now reads, “ The number of signers required on application for charter shall not be less than 12.

Section 3, article 11 : “ The charter of a local union shall not be surrendered so long as ten members who agree to abide by the rules and regulations of, the General Organisation object thereto ” (etc.), must be read: “ The charter of a local union shall not be surrendered so long as eight members who agree to abide by the rules and regulations of the General Organisation object thereto ” (etc.*).

be ground down into dividends in the factory hell, or a hopeless slave in some ignorant, nasty snob family ; the only alternative white slavery, which capitalism lures with pitfalls and temptations on every hand. Every wage slave, child, man and woman, is everywhere a human sacrifice on the altar of dividends. Get busy, workers. Smash the system that condemns us all to a resultless life of misery and toil. Socialism will abolish the fiendish sacrifice of human lives.—W.F. in The People .