Milk and Meat.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 20, 21 July 1911, Page 3

Milk and Meat.

Marriage was made for man and not man for marriage. -x- * * O Lord, shake up the parsons. They nro so very slow in establishing Thy Kingdom on earth. -x- * * Cynicism is the monument erected ever the graves of our dead illusions. * * * Nurse—"Now, don't bo afraid, dear: I jun taking away the candle, but God will stay with you in the dark." Little" Girl —"Oh, nurse! Please take Cod and leave the candle." — Life. The forty hour week will not be had by reptilian antics before a "Kaiser of Law," but by a scientifically organised industrial army. Industrial Unionism is the concetrated essence of working-class intelligence reflected upon the industrial field. *- * * Tho manufacturers and financiers can manage their affairs very nicely without your help. What about having a try to manage your own equally well ? -y r * -xWhen the mists of mis-representation are dispersed even the most ordinary worker will see the necessity and benefits that will accrue by coming into the N.Z.F.L. ■x- * * AGNOSTIC.—A mean contemptible creature who refuses to pray for the destitute, .adopting instead the ridiculous expedient of buying them groceries.—"Hope." ■* * W -.Justice Sim asked the Carpenters ■Kiion (Wellington) if they were serious in their demand for a 40 hoi?r week. Sim thinks the request absurd, but it would be interesting to know how much of the 40 hours a week he works—One half? That he receives the wages of eight carpenters is but «, coincidence. *■ * * The capitalist cry for more work means the expenditure of greater energy and earlier graves for the ers--x * * An idea th,at does not raise the opposition of the ruling class is not worth bothering about. * * *• i - i Enthusiasm is the lubrication which ©ils the wheels of success. * * * Many people are good because the temptation never arose that made them any different. « * ■* Radical Guest: "By the way, Duchess, if we abolish the Lords this session, won't the Duke be awfully upBet?" Duchess: "Oh, I expect he would : bub I shan't let him know, you know!'' —"Punch." -* * * It always pays to be polite. When you are snaking hands with ia man lie can't very well be picking your pockets. A man named Stirton thumped the piano keys for 85 successive hours in Southland the other day. He is

now champion noise distributor. He finished fresh we are told through keeping his hands moving when asleep. Hope he is not a married man; if he is it might be a bit awkward for Iris wife. * * -x- * The lack of domestic servants is again to the fore. From the Labor Department's returns there seem to be more would-be mistresses than there are maids. The need is for the employer to treat the employee with common courtesy and as a rational human being. The driving out of tho domestics is due to the long hours, the drudgery, and the unkind mistress. Even an unprotected girl will not submit to every indignity that may be heaped upon her. "A real salesman is one part talk and nine parts judgment; and he uses the nine parts of judgment to tell when to use the one part of talk." If that is the case there is not a real salesman on the road. * * * * The Manawatu Standard says: — "Dunedin tramway authorities are likely to ask the City Council to frame a by-law dealing with cases in which the official deem a lady's hat pin a peril to other passengers." This is the outcome of recent cases where conductors on several occasions met with nasty wounds to the face through those savage looking weapons called "hat-pins." * * * * Labor is prior to and independent of Caoital. Capital is but the fruit of Labor, and could never have existed had labor not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration—Abraham Lincoln's annual message to Congress, 1863.