UNITED LABOUR PARTY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 530, 4 January 1913, Page 7

UNITED LABOUR PARTY.

conducted by the dominion •: Executive council. (The Ea9ter Conference of the United Labour Party voted to make no paper its special organ, but to provide official news and comments to any paper promising to regularly publish the same. The paper Js not responsible for this column, and the party assumes ro responsibility for any utterances of the paper except for its own official uterances in this department.) " ' ~ CHRISTMAS <?RE>TINGS TO THE LABOUR WORLD, This is the seaspn of goodwill. This is the hour of personal messages between those the worjd over who think kindly of one another. This is the time when hatred is forgotten, and when lovers never forget. This message shall" be personal. -It shall be Bpoken from one to another, from man to man, as the. speech of a brother spoken to.tho'se who 'alao are brothers. I know but eno master.l worship at but one shrine lam devoted tc but one cause. I know' but one purpose in life, .and I bring. my Christmas and greetings to this one thing, to this one living personality, and I know not other world in ■ which to express my meaning-so well as in the one word, LABOUR , Why should I not worship Labour.' The creations of the heavens and the earth were greeted with the songs of the sons of God. when the fullness of Labour had made possible all conscious forms of life, all sense of being, of hope, of love, of aspiration, of de- v Labour is the creator of all. With out Labour, there' is; neither life, nor form nor being. ■.> _ Labour is the creator of all. Ine building of the cities; the planting of the vineyards, the sowing of the fields, the gathering; of the harvests, the quarrying of thVrocks, the lifting, of the earth's treasures from the gloom of the mines, the forming of the fabrics, the making of the garments, the building of the homes the order of the street* the beauty of the playgrounds, the making of our daily bread—every one of these is the gift of Labour. There never was.a thing of use or of beauty, or a place of pleasure, or a Holy of Holies that was not made by the hand of Labour. . , Labour is (he giver of life. With out Labour it is imposisblc for any form' of life or being to come into exisenee, or -'being' »«» existence be able to abide. Labour is the creator. It is the giver of all.i "To those who. share in the service'sof Labour, to those who reiceive the gifts of La :N bour. whatever else to them is sacred, Labour is alone divine. Labour Is ttiVgiyeVof beauty. It is the authjor of ritfiaic. *lt is the creator of art. "It his ali'the pictures "'it lias built ali of thupalaices,. It baa filled,lbs,tiiirU and :vales with, the colour, ihe.fprinandvthofragance of the flowers.,., \\ u There ia nothing which appeals totne sensibilities, which deeply stirs the human heart, nothing-of beauty in-; form or 'or'" fragrance, of movement, or in t'h?.marveilous.voices of the which is not the gift of Labour. u . Slowly and painfully through the centuries, Labour sought for rater colours, and just for the joy of crea, blended and changed and search ed again for new, material or new combinations of 'old; materiels, until all the lights and* shades, of life are made to speak to us lrom the artists' canvas more than all the colours of the rainbow. Slowly and painfully through all the centuries, frpm the natural .voices of the wbodland, the reed, the tom-tom, of the infancy of the race, Labour has wrought out its cooping device for the creation of sounds; : until the crash and jargon of the Irude makers of discordant noises have grown to the symphonies and harmonies of modern music. \ . -.:."_• . Slowly and painfully through the A centuries, Labour has caught a vision of the angels which dwell unknown in blocks of marble, and- has stripped away the rough exterior and left exposed the rnatchressbeauty uf the perfected forma of life. "S - f Slowly and painfully through the centuries, the meagre conveniences of the cave'Tnan's dwelling have been; transformed ny -the hand Of Labour into rows of palaces, streets, boulevards, avenues-^ajuiet restful, wholasom«, and of transcendent beauty where motherhood mav function undis turbed, arid the children are found placing in the streets unharmed. ; Slowly arid painfully through the centuries, Labour Has caused to stand erect, has given'strength and beauty to the bent and broken forma of the children of nature, and this, above all else, has been the Labour of woman-r----the service of fiiotherhood. She has rocked the cradle;:' She ha?- lifted the race. She has "cared more ( for her child, she has loved it better, she has Berved it more completely, than she has served -herself. and through she centuries there has been the movement upward, the "working of the beast," while "the ape and tiger die." Other workers have- given better form to the things, of man, Motherhood has given better forms to man himself. ! Labour is the discoverer. It drew the map of the heavens first. It made the'map of the earth afterwards. It has sounded all her seas. It has invaded all lands. It has made available for the Jise of man the treasures t,of the world. Labour has invaded the unseen world. It masurees, , harnesses, comprehends, makes available' for the uses of man the unseen miracle workers of the "earth and skies. WALTER THOMAS MILLS. . Wellington, December 24th, 1912.,,