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Maoriland Worker, Volume I, Issue 8, 20 April 1911, Page 15

Trade Unionism, the economic arena of the modern gladiator 3 owes its existence to direct action. Bad trades unionists sought to steer their course through begging, pleading, and compromise, trade unionism would to-day-be a negligible quantity. In France, Spain, Italy, Russia, nay, even in England (witness the growing rebellion of English labour unions) direct, revolutionary economic action has become so strong a force in the battle for industrial liberty as to make the worker realise the tremendous importance of labour's power. The General Strike, the supreme expression of the economic consciousness of the workers, was ridiculed in America, but a short time ago. To-day every great strike, in order to win, must realise the importance of the solidaric general protest. —Emma Goldman. Jean Jaure's definition of the Working Class:—Labourers with the brain, labourers with the "hands, artisans, engineers, chemists, scientists, artists, p Oe ts—all creators of wealth, of beauty, of joy. All that we would eliminate is idleness, exploitation, and the disorder of an anarchy which exhausts and ruins the best forces of humanity. THE RIGHT TO WORK. —Wanted, to impress upon the "Worker" the Right to Work at a fair day's pay. W. S. Bedford, 43 Willis Street, will make you a Suit for 75s that will get you a job anywhere.