TRUMPET CALL FOR THE WEEK.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 20, 21 July 1911, Page 8

TRUMPET CALL FOR THE WEEK.

(To be learned off by heart.)

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free— We think, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever gods there be That no life lasts for ever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. From "The Garden of Proserpine."

torn, policy, the "purchasing power of the people had increased enormously/ MoKenzrie knows that there is such a book -as the Official Year Book and that it tells an entirely different story. The source of our food supply ' some of the cities had better remiain a mystery if we wish to retain an appetite. As a result of recent investigation in Auckland it has been shown that some Chinese market gardeners have a playful habit of washing the cabbage and callatee in the succulent waters of the sewer. According to the Economist (London) the distribution of the new capital issues for the first half of the current vea-r was as follows: U. K. £16.----677,000, Canada £19,784,500, Australasia £3.157,000, British Possessions £32,419.800. Foreign £65,230.000, total £137,268,300. This falls-short by £57.000.000 for the first half of last year. About the only comfort the average Australian laborite can draw from the invasion of the Coronation cant by colonial labor Premiers is the fact that they did not accept handles. Yet if they had done so many alleged £aborites would have supported them. The annual report of the Wellinjr ton branch of the Employers Association makes interesting reading. It finds fault with the N.Z-F.L. for not recognising the "benefits" that have accrued to it through the Arbitration Court and threatens to agitate for its abolition unless unions (are "good." The spectacle* of an employers' organisation worrying over the welfare of organised labor is, to say the least of it, screamingly absurd. If the Arbitration Court is really of benefit to the workers, can any intelligent wage slave say why it is the employers are making such desperate efforts to maintain it and keep organised labor under its influence? D. McLaren, according to a report of a recent address, has 'accused Massey, the Arch-Conservative, of the heinous crime of stealing some of his "planks." Surely, "Davy," that should not be a matter for regret—quite the contrary. Imagine the revolutionary nature of a "plaaik" Ataseey "would

steal, and th« amount of good -which would accrue to the workers by it« passing into law. That any party is prepared to bring into existence any measure calcul/ated to assist the worker should be a matter for rejoicing, be they Masseyites or otherwise. A conference of representatives of the West Coast Workers, State miners, Paparoa, Grey Valley Workers, West Coast Tailoring Trade, and Engine Drivers Unions, was held in Greymouth to discuss the advisability of selecting a candidate to contest the Grey electorate in the interests of the N.Z.F.L. It was unanimously decided to contest the seat and a committee was set up to go into the question of ways and means. Each union will be allowed to nominate a candidate provided such is a unionist of at least six months' standing. The nominees of the various Unions will be put to a vote of the various organisations and the one securing the majority will be the selected candidate. Tommy Taylor thinks that Massey ■would be as sreat a «uocess as a nursery governees as head of a Government. For the sake of the child let us hope he never attempts to supplant the nursie. The British Dominions beyond the seas (says the Maryborough, Q., "Alert") are evidently much more blantantly loyal than the Britishers in the Old Country, or they are demonstratively so at any rate. The Royal birthdays are hardly known in the> Old Country, and are certainly not observed, while out here in Australia we even hold holiday on the birthday of dead- Royalty. Take Queen Victoria's birthday, for instance; it is as dead in Great Britain as Victoria herself, but out here it is being made use of by Imperialistic toadies, and our kiddies are trotted out and fed up with Imperialistic guff and no one raises a protest. Speaking of the position of Labor in the forthcoming elections in the iiineinuri electorate, the "Goldfields Advocate" says there are two Labor organisations, viz., the Trades and Councils' Federation and the N..Z. Federation of Labor. The former is formed on the lines of the Australian Labor Party, which, without recognising the class struggle, seeks to improve the lot of the producers by -;iow evolutionary legislation. The latter, .on the other hand, is a thoroughly class-conscious institution, and recognising, with the late Mr. Seddon, that no ~ legislation can be devised for the benefit of the masses without being checkmated by the moneyed power, are out to abolish private enterprise altogether. The members of this organisation "put not their faith in politicians," and whoever stands in heir interests does so on the distinct understanding that be is but the instrument employed to carry the views of his constituents into effect, should he be returned to Parliament. It. will be therefore impossible for the Federation's nominee to impose on credulous people any false promises of standing in the interests of all classes. Jhe party to which he is pledged consider all such utterances to be the aurest of humbug and deceit. There are but two classes, the Haves and ho Have-nots, and, like oil and water, they won't blend. Any candidate to be true to himself and the people he wishes to represent, must avow himself on one or the other. He that is not for our side is against us. It may be as well to remember this when the elections come round.