The Mighty Atoms.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 14, 9 June 1911, Page 6

The Mighty Atoms.

erfeit presentment of the secretary of the N.Z. Federation of Labor. John Glover is as conscientious and genial a man as ever born. In his secretarial domain h° has proved industrious, able and straight—and that's a top-notch trinity. "Jack" has added a legion to his

friends since he be-

camo secretary to tho most virilo and knowledgeable ■workingclass organisation Maoriland has seen. It is a great honour to bo in so high a post for so great a force. But it's a greater honour to deserve the post—and Glover does. He is to be found at Runanga, Greymouth, and may bo comniunicated with on all matters affecting the Federation.

J. P. Jones, Victorian M.L.C., writes this paper that workers' conditions in Naples are wretched. Mr. Jones is on a trip to Europe, and ero this has probably met Tom Mann in Paris by appointment. The pair were close "cobbers" in Melbourne. J.P.J., though a Labor member—one of three —is a revolutionary Socialist in principle, and we bolieA-e is fated to be a power for Avorking class ideals. Should the Labor Party of Vie. Avin at next elections in December—and this is probable—Jones could hardly be passed over for Cabinet rank. Ho reads and thinks, and has gripped the foundational basis of economics.

- * « _ # A stonemason asked Dr. Frucht if ho knew of any practical method of lengthening the lives of stonemasons, Avhich are greatly shortened because of the dust inhaled Avhile at work. The reply he got wasn't what he sought, but it was the correct reply for all that. Here it is:—"You expect mc to tell you of a medicine that will prevent tho dust from accumulating in your lungs, but hore is what I will tell you. You union men, your organisation, and with all your force of members, have the time of your lives to keep the eight-hour day and earn a decent wage, while at the same time there ; _ an unemployed army constantly clamouring for your jobs. Instead of your working eight hours a day, exposed to an atmosphere of dust that is killing ycu by inches, you should work only four, or, at most, six hours a day. Shorter hours mean less exposure to dust, less contamination of your lungs, less pneumonia, less tuberculosis, ' and a lengthening of your span of life considerably, while at the same time the unemployed would be given a chance to earn a livelihood. That is the remedy I suggest."

"I am one of your boys," said Joe Devlin, M.P., to W. T. Stead, when he first met him in the House of Commons. "I have been brought up on the 'Review of Reviews,' which I have read every month since I can remember." Stead chronicles the aforesaid, and makes the member for West Belfast a Character Sketch in May "R. of R." Chickens coming home! *****

Mrs. Siggins (Selina Anderson), a well-known organiser of woman workers, has arrived in Wellington from Australia. In N.S.W. Selina Anderson's name for a number of years was a name to conjure with amongst shop assistants and jam-factory workers. She once—or was it twice?—ran for tho Federal Parliament. She has been engaged by the Amalgamated Society of Merchants' Assistants to organise the female Avorkers in Wellington. Selina Anderson should be a power for the causo in N.Z. Welcome.

That marvellous Socialist daily, the "Ncav York Call," is responsible for the statement that Harry Orchard is edging into the limelight again. Ho is completely penitent. Mrs. Steuenberg, widow of the ex-Governor Orchard murdered, has dramatically forgiven him and clasped him warmly by the hand. "I have forgiven you the great wrong you did mc," she said, "and I think I will not have perfect Eeace until I tell you with my own ps." Sho further says that God directed her to do it, so she had to comply. Tho "Call" adds: "Behind tho move to create favour for Orchard aro tho samo forces that brought about his wonderful 'confession.' They stood by him then, and now tho memory of what really happened is no longer keen they to bring him out of prison. Ho may be sorry for Avhat ho did. He has as yet shoAvn no signs of sorrow for what he attempted to do. Not a word of regret for trying to bring about the murder of "Moycr, HayAvood and Pettibone has ever pass-

Ed his lips. So there is room for the belief that Harry Orchard, the model prisoner, is tho same sort of man he was when he sat in the witness chair and lied, in order that the Western mine owners might glut their appetite for murder."

"Q. Worker 5 " reminds its readers that Goorge, the (as yet) uncrowned King of Merrio England, is a pretty extensive newspaper proprietor. His best journalistic property is the "London Gazette," which is sold at a shilling, and makes a steady profit of £20,000 a year.

Manda JLloyd writes: Have just como (May 25) from Comrade Mills' last address in Sydney. ■ His audiences here this week havo been bigger and more enthusiastic each succeeding night. Ho has held them tense, alert, craning forward to catch every syllable, seizing instantly his points, wildly applauding his apt illuminating il-

lustrations, vividly impressed with the poAver, the sincerity, tho goodwill, the sound common sense and the clearness of vision of this wonderful little man from America. Mills stimulates and instructs. He makes you realise Socialism—the practicability of it, the inevitability of it, the imminence of it. Whatever you do or don't do in tho next six weeks, readers of The Maoeiland Worker, hear Mills. Go to as many of his lectures as you can. Take your wives and children. Tell everybody you meet about him, and writ© to everybody you know about him, and bombard the capitalist press with letters about him, and talk about him in tho streets, in the cars, and trains and hotels. If you do all this you'll help to bring Socialism a few years nearer in N.Z., for Mills heard is a force to be reckoned with. Don't let him leave N.Z. till ho has visited every city and town and township in it.