THE FLAXWORKERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1467, 2 November 1915, Page 3

THE FLAXWORKERS.

At the half-yearly general meeting of the Manawatu Flaxmills Employees’ Union on Saturday, the following resolutions were passed;—

That this meeting of the Flaxworkers’ Union calls the attention of the workers in the Manawatu to the resolution passed by the Otago Employers Association in which employers generally are urged to victimise men of military age and of physical fitness in order to force them to enlist. This meeting condemns this as an outrage upon personal liberty and as an indication of the spirit in which the employing classes would urge the administration ot conscription, fn the event of this form ot intimidation being resorted to in the Manawatu I'laxmilis this Union advises the workers in ear'll mill to stand by their mates to the utmost. That this half yearly general meeting ot the Manawatu Flaxmills Employees Union places on record its strenuous opposition to conscription, seeing that 120 ol onr members have volunteered for the war. 11 condemns this system as a gross violation of the right ot private conscience, as a cause of severe economic 'ml social disturbance, and as a buttress 01 interests concerned with the Industrial suppresion and exploitation ot the wage earners. This meet' ing regards any movement to conscript men while the privileges of the wealthy to expliot the community remain uncurtailed, and while the wealthy demand and receive payment from the State for the use of their money, as totally insincere when urged as the organisation of the community tor war. The Flaxworkers’ Union further objects to conscription at the hands of a Government which neglects to carry out its own regulation for the prevention of typhoid in the flaxmills, and suggests to the Government that it should respect the rights of the workers as a prelude to the recognition ot their duties.

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