Milk and Meat

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 10, 12 May 1911, Page 3

Milk and Meat

Get the reading habit. If yon are.not a class-conscious worker, get the reading habit. If you worker, get th-e reading habit, bhafca up Tour thinkery. * * * You're a Socialist in the Labour Parfcv, you cay. Well, that's alright, so long ac you are a Socialist- A Socialist is one who does something for Socialism. What are you doing? * * - * Progress is a record of the slow retreat of God before the march ot Man. * * * Doesn't this hit you: — CHILD LABOUR. No fledgling feeds the father bird i No chicken feeds the hen! No kitten mouses for the cat — This glory is for men. We arc the Wisest, Strongest RaceLoud may our praise be sung! — The only animal alive That lives upon its young! _i-Oharlott,e P. Gilman. -x- * * . •Two objections sent in to <( La J>° u ; Senator Pearce's department: I JoJin Doran Lynch, claim exemption from military or naval training, because 1 am the son of working-class parents, and I do not believe in being trained as a professional murderer of the workingclass of any nation. Let the capitalist class who engineer wars fight them. Lynch, mother oitheabove, protest against any obligation re naval or military training for my son. 1 brought him into the world and conjointly with his father, fed and clothed and educated him, and I rex fuse to hand over the right of arrangements for his future to any set of capitalistic political yahoos.— &?<**%■ ist," Sydney. Will New Zealand mothers please copy? * * *■.., The stupendous irony of medicinal progress is that, side by side with its miraculous saving power we rot and die on a terribler scale than ever before ' * No we don't at all obj-ect to you gettino- subscribers to the Worker. Subscriptions will bring a better paper. Hurtle! Economic righteousness is the foundation of all righteousness. Unless upstanding on this rock, righteousness is a delusion and a snare. * * * "Glory to God in the Highest." Hear them sing it, thereby to drown the groans of the men and women they have used and cast out into the hell or hardupness. * * * BuTly Bill Haywood saya the Labour leaders of England can't see the light anywhere. Says, also, that they are groping in inky darkness, and on every hand are being repudiated by the rank and file. • * * * The Cambrian Coal Co. offered the .Wales minera £100 a month to feed the echool children. The miners refused it unanimously, saying, ''Thy money perish with thee." The Welsh miners are making rapid strides towards industrialism. * * * In the Vancouver "Western Clarion" nearly at the zenith in economic expositions —a lecturer tells how he held forth on the struggle tor existence and the Socialist solution. An objector asked, "What about New Zealand? They've got Socialism there, and it s worse than here." Socialism here—well, we don't know ot it. Gu-ess you d Stave a tougher job to find it than to locate the proverbial haystack needle.

The trust has done all these things in America, and may do likewise in Australasia. Says an authority on the operations of the Beef Trust: —"It is a power which holds the United States in its terrible grip, and threatens to throw its tentacles over the food markets of the whole world. Not only does it control the American meat siipply, fixing the prices at which producers must sell and consumers must buy, but every kind of produce comes within tne scope of its greedy activity. Beef ana mutton, vegetables and potatoes, eggs and butter, grapes and tomatoes, all the food which appears on the breakfast and dinner tables of American citizens is eaten by permission of the Trust and purchased at prices which it has arbitrarily fixed. There is nothing benevolent about this huge organisation. « * * Forty-nine million, three hundred thousand tons of coal are carried across the ocean in a year, and 19,200,000 tons of grain.

A conference between English Trade Union leaders and Indian reformers has been held in London for the purpose of launching a scheme to organise Indian workers on Trade Union lines! #. # * ONWARD I "Unhasting, unresting." In the strife let us tire nots Bβ "onwardl ,, our watchword, Though the end we may see not. Our striving for justice— Our work that men count not —? May, long ere looked for, Bear fruit that will die not. —E. W. Wheat. * * * Reported that J. Pierpont Morgan is forming a combination of industries, whose business it will be to induce employees to invest in commercial securities and become capitalists. He hopes to stop by causing the small fellow to imagine he is a capitalist, and must work with other capi-

talists. That is, he'll give some a basin of soup occasionally, in order to keep most in the soup permanently. * * * They own and you groan. That's the po&ita-fwi. Get rid of the silliosity that the lo- "tia ye the brains, and therefore you have the pains. They OWN—and if you took a tumble, you could end their consequent exploitation. * * * Here's freedom to him that wad read. Here's freedom to him that wad write; There's nane ever feared that the truth should be heard . But them what the truth wad indict. —Robert Burns. *•■■•» * Despite the despicable methods adopted by its foes, the principles of Industrial Unionism i£Lnd increasing favour in the eyes of the workers, and the fact thafe tho only industrial organisation of the workers in New Zealand worthy of the name that the Labour-Lieutenants of the Capitalist class are trying to disrupt —the New Zealand Federation of Labour —should have affirmed the principles of Industrial Unionism is, indeed! significant. Despite all jeers and sneers —despite all bitter cries of hatred—we shall yet have one big union for the Workers! One class conscious economic organisation, created to fight and not to crawl! One Army of the Working Class more interested in the abolition of Capitalism than the creation of politicians. Despite all, these ideas shall triumph I—Speed the day I "Social Democrat," Auckland. ■* * .* Pity -bh-e idle rich I The poof dear ladies of the non-working class are awiullv cut UB on the scarcity of domestic" servants. They are so helpless -bliev can't cook their family's dinner. ** * • As fast as the toilers—those who do things—learn, they will fall into line. ■** ' * Why Revolutionary Socialism? Because Socialism means Revolution. Socialism means a Revolution in the economic foundation of society, in that it would put the wealth-matters in tno position of being the wealth-takers. * * * Supply and demand as a grand old shibboleth wherewith to gull the Workers. It is the working of this law that causes tho rise in the price of meat and keeps up the price of butter, say the merchants. Yet every freezing work is crowded out with tons of beef and butter to be drawn on a little at a time. And so the "scarcity" is artificial, and the Workers have to suite* because private persons own and control public services. * * * Industrial Unionism in Maoriland ia "impossible" inst so lone as you ana your like think it is. AVhen a majority of the Workers determine to get it, a* will arrive 1 * * * Socialism means scientific industry and public ownership—that's all, ■* * * Luxury is the first, second, and third causa of the ruin of republics. It ia the vammre which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifo blood of our veins.—.Edward Payson. * ♦ * Walt Whitman, tho goodjgrey poefr, says : —• 4 Many sweating, ploughing, thresnio^| and the chall for payment reoeivia* A few idle owning, and they the wh^M continually claiming. Yes wheat in the shape of rent, interest, and , profit for the master and crumbs for the producer. Wake Up, Worker I * * * We seek justice and fight injustice. We seek free labour and fight wageslavery. We seek peace and order xmd combat the murder of people, the Class War and Social Anarchy.—William Liebnecht.