NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1001, 26 September 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The professional writer of advertisements is a burden that business men carry. Here and there one does good work, but he is a notable exception. What practical printers think of the advertisement writer as a class is shown by a paragraph following (.taken from the New Zealand Times) : “The advertisement writer, who prides himself on his knowledge of typographical technicalities, and who is saved by the compositor from displaying his ignorance to the public, is apparently becoming a nuisance to the printer. ‘Does the advertisement writer assist you in your work ?’ a witness was asked in the Arbitration Court on Friday. ‘He does not,’ was the prompt aud very decided answer. The witness continued that advertisement writers marked lines ‘3O point’ in such a manner that it their instructions were carried out the advertisement would run to double the space desired. ’’

This is the kind of stuff on which unionists are fed by their leaders: “Workers, stand up or fall into ignominy. Assemble in your mass meetings and defy Government tyranny. Move into the fray swiftly and terribly. Fling in money for the maintenance of the fighters bearing the brunt of the battle of and for all. Together, by standing together, all things are possible. The unity of the workers is the hope of the world.” The above is the closing exhortation of a “manifesto” to workers, published by the leaders of the Labour Federation. It is an insult to working men’s intelligence to believe that they can seriously absorb such nonsense. The “manitesto” was supplemented by an address in Post Office Square, Wellington, by the organiser of the Federation, which concluded : “There were no police force, no judges, or class biassed magistrates in New Zealand that were going to force them to surrender. They were going to fight on irrespective of consequences,” And yet, we find men even in this community who allow such balderdash to sway them.