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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 17, 30 June 1911, Page 3

Milk and Meat.

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The most active and best organised workers of New Zealand are joining the Federation of Labour. This means that they have brains enough to see that industrial orealisation is the only organisation worth while. What are you doing? •x- * ■ * The retention of the right to strike by the working class is the distinguishing mark between cowardly submission and oxhilirating militancy. The power of the strike is greater than Arbitrations Courts, ponaT corhs, and the military. Intelligently used it can work wonders. * * * Join the Federation of Labour andj by the might of your orf.;p,ri3Sfvtkmj

capitalism will spit gold. * * * There is no more degrading spectacle than that of working men and women in a Court of Arbitration laying hare before an unsympathetic judge the privacy of their domestic affairs. Try some less humiliating

way of bettering your conditions * * * Trusts and combines are destroying competition of most kinds .amongst capitalists, but until the workers organise upon lines of industry—lndustrial Unionism—the cessation of competition on their part is impossible. * *• * A Press Association message stated that considerable satisfaction existed in Whangarei at the decision of the

Cabinet to proceed with the slaughter of an ignorant Maori boy. We refuse to believe that Whangarei residents are so barbarous and bloodthirsty that the strangling of a dusky-skinned urchin, but one degree removed from a savage, would fill them with selfsatisfaction . * * ' * Working women at the washingboard scrubbing grimy clothes with children crowding round crying for bread, what has capitalism done for you ?

* * SfThus an exchange : ' 'The exercise of common sense is called for in dairying, as it is in every other department of the business of the producer." Why not apply some of that common sense in distribution ? * * * A Dominion country paper states that "the pig responds as quickly to cleanliness and good care as any other animal on the farm." Doesn't the same apply to the ordinary human specie ?

-* * * Capitalism is to the working-class what the squeezer is to the lemon.— Clias, Cotton. *- * * The New Zealand worker may not have a large bunch of scientific terms at his 'tongue's end; may not exactly understand the materialistic conception of history; but he is beginning to realise that his greatest enemy is capitalism and that he has the power to exterminate it. •55- * * Capitalist escutcheon : A black flag with skull and crossbones rampant. Underneath, a prison, tenantless. Motto: Many times indicted but jail

never touched me.—"Hope." * .* * Trusts and Socialism may bo instanced as examples of movements that do not depend for their expansion upon the approval of public opinion. * * * Japanese on the sugar plantations of Hawaii, where Filipinos are also employed, are threatening a general

strike unless the latter are discharged. The Japs, charge the Filipinos with being dangerous robbers when off duty, and declare it is not safe to be abroad at night in the districts where the latter are. Wonder when these Japs, will get wise to the greatest robbers of all, the Spreckles, owners of Hawaii's sugar plantations. Their strike will then be against the common enemy, not against the ignor-

ant Phillipinc Islander. Now is the time to push the circulation of this paper and spread tho industrial union propaganda. Keep in action.

* * * The steamship Oomrie Castle recently left Capetown for London with 231 mammals, birds, and reptiles on board for King George's collection. George .Rex should be sick of all animals and reptiles by this time, particularly of the reptile species. * * * Amidst enthusiastic cheers of both Houses of Parliament in New South

Wiles, the Coronation addresses to the King expressing loyalty to the Empire were carried. Thus does the Labour Ministry boost the most pernicious influence against working-clas.i emancipation. * * *- The people who twenty years ago contended that the trustification of wealth could not possibly survive are the same to-day declaring Socialism impossible. ** * . Some people who have nothing are awfully afraid Sorialism will take it away from them. — "Appeal to Reason." #r * * Beware of the "Comnxonsense

Unionism" of the capitalist press. It is a delusion and a snare. The daylies haven't yet referred to Industrial Unionism as being a "sane form of organisation," hence the workers should study it. Because the capitalist class wish to retain their supremacy, they are forever trying to damn the Federation of

Labor. This should make the worker stop and think. A form of organisation that meets with the approval of the employing class is useless to the toilers. * * * The best way to prevent the penalising of strikers is to org- nise indus-

trially and present a solid front to the ruling class. * * * The New Zealand workers are revolting against compulsory arbitration ; in Australia, Labour politicians are endeavouring to more firmly implant its yoke upon the toiler. * * # Talk is cheap. Don't be telling others what you are going to do but

get in and do it. Action speaks louder than words. Get your fellow unionists talking of industrial unions, talk to them of the Federation of Labour. Then you will have done something. * * * Never lose sight of the fact that the prime necessity of organisation is the abolition of the wage-system. * * * Do we believe in "political or direct action ?" As Socialists we believe in

political action; as Industrialists we J believe in direct action. •& I The expressed aim of the N.Z. Fed- I eration of Labour is to end capitalism. /

This is the vital difference between ifr and our Trades Council friends. * * * You '"'pure and simple labourites," do you know that it is -stolid mind* that cannot keep pace with modern scientific thought, and conceives evolution at all times as a slow nrocess ? ** * ~ The workers of United States ar©

making preparations to declare for an, 8-hour day on May 2, 1912. It was the eight-hour movement that led to the Chicago "Anarchist" hangings in 1887. The victims are known to-day as the "Chicago Martyrs." It was the eight-hour movement in Colorado which resulted in the reign of bloodand terror in that State—where union men were treated worpe than criminals and the women folk subjected to every indignity. What will the next attempt lead to? The workers have progressed considerably since the days of '87 and '03; how will the employers meet another demand ? It is a grave question.

* * * Most of the working men who fight for existing conditions (by doing nothing) accept wage reductions and increased rents as gratefully as their masters accept an increase in salary.