News-Notes from the front.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 17, 30 June 1911, Page 12

News-Notes from the front.

Notes From The North.

The workers of Huntly arc learning a lesson. The lesson deals with economic laws. Tlio situation briefly is this : The sales of our commodity, coal, aro at their highest, owing to the wintor season. The mines are breaking all previous records in output. The company's orders are being supplied. Everything from the company's view is looking ro>TV; from the standpoint of the miners times are dark. By increase of number wo have compressed

tlio work which formerly gave eleven day a fortnight's employment into nine clays. By tlie end of the year tho result will be higher dividends than ever before in the history of the company, and the miners will be reduced into a deeper state of misery. Greater Wealth, yet greater Misery!

Solution to tiro problem: The workers must have tlio product of their labor. This is the key first and last. Air. Workbu, did you ever pause to consider our battle-cry and wiiat it means. Have you desired tho abolition of poverty and misery? You, Mr. Industrial-slave,. can do so! You can claim your own, and so long as you fail to" establish yoxir claim you perpetuate this inglorious, ignoble state of existence. The "World's Wealth for tho World's Workers" is the objective of the rs.Z.r\"JL., and therein lies our only hope. And only when the worker receives his own will Alan begi.n to Live. With tho. value of our labor all that enobios life would be ours. Homes, education, books— j_i'o. .But this means revolution first, moans righting for our rights. Yes, my brothers, this would moan striking out for Socialism. We should seek the full value of our labor —nothing less. Only with the co-operative commonwealth will we, the workers, como into our own.

.Burns said 150 years ago tliat lie could not well conceive a more mortifying scene in Iranian life than a man seeking work. Nearly every day for the past few weeks many wage-slaves havo come to Huntly seeking taskmasters. The stalls of brute laborers have been filled to overflow and so our

oomrades have been relegated to_ the unemployed army—the industrial reserve army, as Marx aptly terms it. Tho money-graspers havo no need for them, and so they, the workers, turn to seek other money-graspers, hopeful to gain their daily bread. Comrades J. E. Duncan and F. Knapper have been to Auckland to hear tho famous Walter Thomas Mills. They bring back a report that thrills a fellow's being twenty times through. Simply a marvel. Fire running through every sentence. Well, brothers, let us hope to hear Comrade Mills e~e he leaves our particular prtirt of this planet.—BlLLY BANJO.