CONSCRIPTION versus THE FEDERATION.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 19, 14 July 1911, Page 13

CONSCRIPTION versus THE FEDERATION.

Sir, —It is a significant coincidence that shortly after the first move of the Maoriland workers in their class struggle^—i.e., tho establishment of the Federation of Labor, that our capital-ist-controlled Government of New Zealand replied -with "pawns advance to defence of "King Capital and check" or in other words, the forcing down our throats of conscription and its consequent menace to the toilers of this Dominion. The plutes are not so far-sighted as many workers imagine, but even they at last are conscious of the unrest that is manifesting itself in the ranks of Labor, and they realise further that this unrest can have but one outcome, namely a combined onslaught on private property by the industrial workers of the world.

So to prepare against that dread day of having to go to work, our rich "brothers" are busily building a fighting organisation of unclass-conscious slaves, who, obedient to official orders, will answer the demands of Labor with "roar of machine gun, scream of shrapnel and thrust of bayonet"—that is, providing the plutes have any luck. Of course, it may be that, though tho plutes propose, the workers may dispose, and with eyes opened at last refuse any longer to vote these said guns and obedient military slaves into the

nds of the capitalist class. And— dreadful thought—it may be that the Federation itself eventually decides to go into politics, so as to obtain control of this fighting organisation. The results would be too dire to contemplate—for capital. Some fine morning (and not many years hence) the plutes of N.Z. will wake to find that the Federation has captured Parliament; that the battalions of military boy slaves, etc., are officered by class-conscious working men ; that the toilers have stormed the industries, elected their own "bosses" and locked out the useless capitalist class; that stocks and bonds are no longer worth a curse; .that the Social Revolution has happened at last, and as Rosebery whined, "it is the end of all"—for the plutes. And what are you going to do about it, Messrs. Prvor, Sim and Co. ? THE CLARION SCOUT.