DEFENCE AND DECEPTION.

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 6, 1 July 1913, Page 2

DEFENCE AND DECEPTION.

Georgie’s armoured plaything “ NeAV Zealand,” now doing the coast at the behest of the capitalists of Britain, in an attempt to work up or stimulate patriotism in the N.Z. Shrve-Class and pave the Avay for more profits on the sale of armaments, is a concrete answer to the Jingo Press lies about the proposed N.Z. Conscript army being intended “ only for defence.” If every Avorking man in N.Z. were willing to defend the country which isn’t his, the most efficient land force that could be raised would be powerless before half-a-dozen dreadnoughts of the “ N.Z.” type; they could reduce every large toAvn in the country to ruins Avithin 24 hours. What, then, is the purpose behind the desperate attempts to make conscription a success ?

1. For use during “ internal trouble” (to shoot strikers). 2. To send abroad to murder, or be murdered by, the conscripts of other nations, so as to settle disputes between different sections of the International Capitalist Class. 3. To increase the manufacture of guns, battleships, etc., for the enrichment of the greedy dealers m the implements of wholesale slaughter.

Tlie Avliole “ defence” scheme is a piece of deception. The Avorkers stand to lose all along the line — they have nothing- 1 to gain by Militarism and/ nothing to lose by invasion. Working men should therefore REFUSE TO DRILL or be fooled into Militarism.

By request we insert the following u We desire to call attention to a pamphlet recently issued by Mr. W. H. F. Alexander, DANGER TO CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY FROM MODERN IMPERIALISM. This contains most pertinent thoughts for those who would save the boys from the impending military slavery. Post free l|-d, from: Reliance Printery, 118, Victoria St., Auckland.”