Here and There.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 11, 19 May 1911, Page 11

Here and There.

Messrs Hazel and Hooking have been successful in establishing branches of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners in the Hawke's Bay and AVaikato districts. Mr. Hooking states "that the employers of the latter place are strongly in favour of their establishment and already thereare prospects of live organisations. ,. There are nineteen branches, of the A. S. C. and! J. in New Zealand. Evidently the class war has not reached Waikato ; ther© the- exploiter and the exploited live in blissful harmony. An important clause is proposed for the new agreement between the em-, ployers and employees in the carpentering trade of Napier 'which will be heard before Mr. P. Halley on the 18th inst. It provides that all apprentices in towns whore technical schools are established shall attend at least two classes weekly; the ccurse of studies to be between the employer and the apprentice. It is proposed also that the employer shall pay for the studies or the apprentices wages, shall be increased to cover the class, fees. Undier Socialism our boys will' learn their trade in daylight hours; their evenings will be their own to spend in. physical development a;ic! amusement-

Organiser Semple addressed a bis meeting at Waihi on May 7, and on last Sunday night a tig anti-militarist meeting took place. Mr. John Mee., the organiser of the Amalgamated Society of Merchants' Assistants strolled into a "Wellington jewellers shop owned by a son of Israel in iiis endeavour to get recruits for the new union. The Jew, mistaken for an assistant, was, asked fto joint the sooiety, and the following dialogue took place • Mcc: 'There is nothing like unity of action; make one more and ioin in with us." Jew : "Yes, I vill, der is too much underselling mit der yewellery." Mcc: "Oh, btit this is an assistants' union, .you're the boss." Jew- "Assistants' union! der is too much junions; it is nothing but junion dis and junion dat; you fellers will soon want our whole plessed pizziness." Mcc: "That's just what we're after, boll, you ye just struck it. We want the whole blessed bxisiness of the country. (Exit).