SOLIDARITY UNBROKEN and Strike Spreading

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 16, 15 November 1913, Page 1

SOLIDARITY UNBROKEN and Strike Spreading

AUCKLAND STANDING SOLID. In spite of all the false rumours circulated by the employers’ agents, and the deliberately faked “ news ” items appearing in the daily press, the Solidarity of Labour in Auckland is greater than ever. It is Solidarity that has made the masters desperate. More Unions have met and voiced their loyalty and Solidarity. Unions on strike have met again and emphasised their determination to win, with greater enthusiasm than ever. Every lying report, every trick and subterfuge, every effort to stampede the workers back by degrees, has failed miserably, and whatever basis of settlement it is already a victory for Labour. Labour has dealt such a blow as will be hard to recover from.

The seamen are out, the special police and not the workers are “ growing tired of it,” the attempts to teach the workers a “ lesson ” have been frustrated, and the employers, putting up their bluff* about “ fighting to a finish,” are utterly disgruntled and desperately anxious for a settlement.

To add to their chagrin tlieir much belauded Exhibition is hung up, the workers south of Auckland are threatening to come out solid, and —worst of all —ugly and persistent rumours of smallpox, carried in by pakehas and Maori “ specials,” from outlying districts, are threatening to kill their beloved Exhibition. When the parasite class are brought to their senses, these evils will melt under the hand of honest laboui* as mists melt before the sun, for without our labour, in spite of their scabs, their specials, their prostitute press, and their coercive agencies, they, the non-producers, are powerless. Now it is to us to maintain the fine Solidarity that has developed, to us to see that the master class and their tools do not play on the weaker one by their lies and threats. Now it is for fellow workers south to fall into line and exercise that most potent weapon of Labour —the complete tie-up —THE GENERAL STRIKE.

Bosses Getting Desperate and Discharging Scabs ♦ Rumours of Typhoid. Authorities Alarmed ♦ ■ ARBITRATION GOING BY THE BOARD ♦ SPECIALS RETURNING