At the Waterfront.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 22, 4 August 1911, Page 5

At the Waterfront.

m NAUTILUS. A northern paper, in answering a reactionary correspondent, uses that time-worn cry to the apathetic members of Auckland's Waterside Union: "The I.W.W. policy is not acceptable to the majority of the union." If 1.W.W.-ism is not acceptable, the sterling policy of the N.Z.E.L. is, judging by the unanimous vote when Ted. Canham's motion was put pledging the unio l to the policy of Federated Labour. Hoy often have we heard the fossilised official use the same argument when the live members; —who take an interest in the uuion for unity's sake —make a move forward. Can any man with sound sense and reason oppose the amalgamating policy of the-N.Z.F/L. ? If he does, he is traitor to the first principle of unionism, for the goal of unionism miist be; complete combination. A unionist who would stay the bnding-up process is f a drag; he w r ould stop building the house when he had the walls up; he would leave the roof off. Any waterside worker must recognise the power the Union Steam Ship Company gained by-combination. If any fool coalscratcher thinks that the U.S.S. Co. cares a brass farthing for petty milk-and-water union so long as it can get the coal from the mines, he is even a bigger goat than I thought him. But let his union combine with the coaldiggers, and he will immediately command respect. Mr. Ted. Canham, a sterling fighter for industrial unionism, in the Auckland Waterside Workers' Union, has accepted a seat on the Auckland Trades Council to push that body into line with the N.Z.P.L. Ho can keep his end of the stick up, too. The turbine «steamer Newhaven, built at Home for the Dieppe service of London, Brigton, and South Coast, arrived at Newhaven recently, having established a record of 2 hours 41 minutes for the trip, constituting a Channel record. An auspicious Labour venture. Mr. Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia, will have a steamer placed at his disposal to inspect Cockburn Sound, the prospective naval base for Australian operations The representatives of the Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Union and Master Trimmers waited on; the Deputy Superintendent of Navigation with a complaint regarding the lack of provision of escape doors from the bunkers of Home and foreign vessels. On interstate vessels escape is provided for by the means of ladders inside the ventilators. They asked for similar provision in Home ships. Captain Hackney admitted the reasonableness of the request, and offered to move in the matter. ' .