Page 9 Advertisements Column 1

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 16, 23 June 1911, Page 9

RECORD TE A | THE FAVOURITE BLEND 5 Sold at - - 2/-, 1/10, 1/8, 1/6 per \b. | ALL STOREKEEPERS 5 Christopher Thomas & Bros. Limited \ BRISTOL. 5 PURITAN SOAPJ It is the only Soap wnich has a guarantee with every tablet that it A GANIMOTHARIVI % IT SAVES THE CLOTHES -C

j] 7n Our Opinion.

go to press imaivare of Avhat will * ▼ happen at Waihi. Since our last issue negotiations have been proceeding between the mining companies and the N.Z. Indexation of Labor. With what result was unknown as this paper closed its columns for the Aveek. Whilst hopelul of a satisfactory settlement, Aye are by no means certain of it. If by the time this issue is in the hands of our readers trouble should have become the ordrr of the campaign, Aye hope there Avill be such a rally to the Waihi men as to stagger A'eAv Zealand. If a strike, let it be a strike to aviii. All the Avorkers supporting the strike against ail the capitalists striving- to beat the strike.

X3TA\i;\G heard Walter Thomas Mills -*~*- Aye aro m a position to confirm tlie .glowing opinions expressed by correspondents. We advise every industrialist and every Socialist to hear Mr. Mills, and Aye urge them to induce as many others as possible to hear him. Compared with the importance of the visiting Professor's message, the auspices under which he is lecturing is almost a negiigjble quantity, buck teaching as Mr. Mihs is giving is the teaching New Zealand needs if it is to be for .Socialism. The matter of the tAA-o lectures entitled resnectively "Winnilff i -&"-" VVoi " k -'s Markets Without War" and ' I go to prepare a place" is matter to hit hard the militarist mania, and at the same time hurt capitalistic economics.

rTIHE Presbyterians of Canada have decided to inaugurate an active anti--Luormon campaign. Tlie Mormons are rapidly increasing in number, and in the Province of Alberta they aa-iII soon hold tne balance of political poAver. Whilst holding no brief for the Mormons, it is nevertheless a- fact that protective labor legislation Avas inaugurated in Utah many years ago. Whilst many Christians —Presbyterians and others —Avere doing their best to preserve intact the existing conditions, the despised Mormon was establishing reforms that benefited materially his •'Gentile" felloAv citizens.

(SOCIALISM must come, because Capi- _-> talisin must decay. Capitalism is degenerating because it has performed its function in the process of economic evolution. To-day Capitalism's fruits are Avaste, disease, misery, poverty, unemployment. These are the signs of its de'L_ cay Capitalism., Avith its practice of proht-mongering production, can neither feed its victims nor dispose of its wares, -he manufacturer ha® been forced to the Avail by the financier. The financier is purely and simply a dividend-drawer. Hence useless. But Herbert Spencer declared that Socialism is inevitable even as Karl Marx saAv the inevitable breakdo Avn of Capitalism. Increasingly the Avorkmgclass are marshalling their forces under the banner of Socialism. The perception of the uselessiiess of the capitalist the planlessness of production, the Avaste ox competition, the increase of unemployment, and the boon of scientific co-op-eration these are leaving ar\ indelible psychological effect on the Avorkers every where, and must have their objective effect. The concentration of capital— the trust —is concrete proof of the practicability of Socialism. Socialism will come because it stands the test of history, of science, of evolution.

A S to ""preference to unionists " hoAVever logical it be Avith Arbitration— and passing by the proof that it is mostly a hollow sham —rather than haA*e preference it Avoukl be better not to haAe Arbitration. Legal "preference" IoAA-ers unionism, forcing to it an element t.hat weakens, and in the time of crisis endangers. We know of unions well-nigh throttled by this element. No more speaking testimony to the evils of "preference is to be found than in thoso