Milk and Meat.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 19, 14 July 1911, Page 3

Milk and Meat.

Nothing of lasting benefit, was ever gained by the people unless they wrung it by foroe from the possessing class. Ho who would deny to the workers to-day their right to fight and to strike is blind to the 1-ssons of tho past. '" * ■' * - * '•Law and order," the favorite cry of the capitalist press, means hell arid damnation for tho workers. '■■ * * * "The chain is not stronger than its weakest link." Hence the need of every branch of labor being thoroughly organised industrially. Craft unionism is a mere conglomeration of weak links. * * * All methods of organisation must

eventually lead to industrial unionism. ■*• * * Misleaders of the "working-class are those who oppose consciously or unconsciously the principles of organisation oublined by the N.Z.F.L. * * * * The power of the boycott used by

organised labor, is an excellent tonic for those employers who mete out un- I just treatment to their unprotected workers. / ■» * * "The unity of labor is the hope of the world." That unity is impossible just so long as craft unionism exists. ■* * - * The Union man that has learned to use his own thinking machine is on tho high road to industrial unionism. * * * Since tho capitalist class and their lienchmen are incapable of an unselfish self-sacrifice, they assume that the same_ spirit prevails amongst the working-class.

* * * Turn yourself loose and chase that non-subscriber to hia lair. You'll grab his sub. * * * Dishonesty is a question of degree. Some who freely indulge in it are called successful business men. Others are called rogues and vagabonds. Luck and social standing are great factors in successful dishonesty. * * * The worker who is compelled by economic necessity to sign an agreement with his employers is justified

in breaking that agreement the moment the opportunity offers. Employers don't hesitate to evade the provisions of any agreement. * * * If you want to "get on in the world" be ia traitor to the workingclass, and at all times preaoh the necessity of maintaining our silly little craft "0 nions. * * * The unholy 'alliance between Capital and labor will last just so long as the workers fool round with the Arbitration Court. * * * "War is hell," said General Sherman many years ago. The industrial war is the most hellish of all wars. »- * * - * L/on t expose your ignorance by boasting of how much work you have done during the course of a day, un-

less you want to be classed as an unmitigated ass who delights in building up a huge surplus for his employer. * * * The "Barrier Daily Truth" publishes some interesting figures in relation to the Barrier mines. There are 7,093 men employed in and about the mines. During the 12 months' there were 16 fatal accidents; an average of 2.25

per 1000. Of this number only 6 were caused by falls of ground, which hitherto was the most prolific cause of fatalities. The value of mineral exported ia the greatest since 1906, with the exception of the year 1907. The figures are: 1907, £3,097,551; 1910, £2,433,297.

Jesus tells us to take up the cross and follow Him. . . . No one hears His words or follows His cornmatid. But let a man in a uniform decked out with goldJJaoe, a man wthose speciality is to kill his fellows, say, "Take not your cross, but yoxir knapsack and carbine, and march to suffering and certain death," and the mighty host is ready to obey his orders. Leaving parents,

wives and children, and clad in grotesque costumes, subject to the will of the first comer of higher rank, famished, benumbed, and exhausted by forced marches, they go like a herd of cattle to the slaughter house, not knowing where; and yet these are not cattle, they are men.—Tolstoi. * -3C- * There will come a day when the Socialist Ideal, the Brotherhood of Man, shall be readily recognised throughout the world—when the industrial, commercial and international relations—the good of the many and not of the few, shall be avowed as the

primary aim of life.—Edward Grubb, M.A. * * * The strength and power of Socialism rests in the fact that we are leading a class struggle; that the laboring class is exploited and oppressed by the capitalist class, and that within capitalist society effectual reforms, which will put an end to class government and class exploitation, are impossible. —Leibnecht. * *> * A militiaman is a scab on the regular soldiers.