HOW WORDS VARY

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1179, 2 December 1913, Page 4

HOW WORDS VARY

IN THE RED VIEW

PROBLEM FOR THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

(By “Aye, Ready,” in the Wellington Post.) New meanings for old words (singly or in phrases) have been evolved by the Red Federation’s spokesmen. Here is a new worry for the Education Department ; Agreement. —An industrial fluid, which evaporates at a red heat and turns into a noxious gas. Strike.—The birthright and inalienable heritage of Red Federationists, for which blows were struck at Waterloo Quay and Lambton Quay. Work. —The exclusive right of strikers. Wood-blocks.—An atrocious institution of the master class, an abuse of the streets, in the interests of Capitalism. Wood-blocked streets are an intolerable obstacle to the emancipation of the classconsdous wage-slaves. Loose road metal (preferably in heaps) is the only genuine democratic material for the roadways. Steam-rollers. —Brutal crushers and oppressors of road metal, and therefore crushers of uuiouism. Bottles. —Friends of those who would be free. Law. —The order of the strike committee. Lawlessness.—The interference of police or special constables with the lawful Committee of Public Safety, known as the Strike Committee. - Violence, -- The tyrannous checking of “peaceful picketing” (even when the stones and iron bolts do not weigh more than a pound each) by “minions of the murder-minded miueowners’ law.” Intimidation.—Any sort of a horse carrying anybody hostile fo “peaceful picketing.” Victimisation.—The sacrifice of militant educational “peaceful picketing” on the altar of I Mammon. “Peaceful picketing (as defined at a recent meeting in Wellington). —Doing the right thing—and not being caught. Secret Ballot.—A tin cau of the capitalistic class to prevent the militant, class conscious tail from wagging the sluggish dog. Class-consciousness- Loyalty to the strike leaders. Argument.—A half brick Logic.—Scrap iron. Solidarity.—A gasometer or a posthole, painted the colour of rock. Victory.—Defeat viewed through red spectacles. “Lies”. — Denials of solidarity and victory in the plute press. Piute Press. —The callous, brutal upholder of murder-minded law, and the vile, foul mouthed oppression of the sacred Red Federation. Democracy. —Government by the law-abiding strike committee. Terrorism.—Discouragement of “democracy.” Wage-slaves.—The persons who never have a sixpence for the moving pictures, never a shilling for “Tatts.”, never a sixpence for a pint or a square-face, and only one meal in three days. The Master Class.—The persons who sit down and grow fat on the dividends earned by strikers, strike committees, and I.W.W. sabotage enthusiasts. Capitalism.—The privilege of employing revolutionary wageslaves of the best I.W.W. brand. Scab. —An advocate of the secret ballot, work, and other evils. Scabbery. ence of the orders of the Red Federation’s national executive. (It is scabbery to drink the contents of casks which have worked after the call for a general strike.) Parliament. —The puppet of the plute press and the master class, and maker of the lawless law of Waihi and Waterloo Quay and Lambton Quay, and the iniquitous usurper of the Strike Committee’s authority. Traitor.—A cowardly evolutionary Labourite who “scabs on the