Milk and Meat.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 22, 4 August 1911, Page 3

Milk and Meat.

Senhor Fernando Reis. . .. -A member of the Portuguese Anti-Slav-ery League, inherited last year his father's estate in Angola, which, was manned by 100 slaves. He immediately set them free, substituting paid voluntary labor, which his experience proves to be at least 40 per cent, cheaper. Thus London "Daily News." Yet some claim chattel slavery was abolished for moral and not monetary considerations. *** . . Speaking of the tax on employers should Lloyd George's Industrial Insurance Bill become law, Lord Furness says: "My firm will be compelled to pay *>mething like £8000 per annum, but when we examine the benefits, both direct and indirect, which will accrue to manufacturers. . . I feel convinced that the advantages will far outweigh the employers annual contribution." Can what brings greater returns to employers be for the ultimate benefit of the Worker? * * * Two items from the same column of the London "Daily Mail," of "May 24: —Oovent Garden Coronation Gala. — The demands for seats. . . . has probably exoeeded anything ever experienced by any "theatrical management in the world. . . The directors on Monday"were made an offer of £500 for any box in the theatre, aaid yesterday a gentlemon offered to pay £1000 to any holder willing to transfer. —Suicide of W T illiam Harvey, Unemployed.— The widow said she and her three children had been practically starving. She went to a sister's on Sunday to borrow sixpence to get something for dinner and, on returning, found her husband dead. * * -; * Bishop Grimes, of Christchurch, has left on a health trip to the South Sea Islands. None of the working class of his diocese accompanies him.' * * * At a meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, held last Friday, the following motion was carried by 32 votes to 2 vo tes: —"We, the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, emphatically protest against compulsory military training, seeing that the electors of this country were not consulted in the matter whatever. Wo stand for universal peace and universal brotherhaod." .* * * A writer in a Tasmanian paper recently gave some facts concerning Tattersall's sweeps that should prove of interest. He says:—"On June sth, 1897, Tattersall held his first sweep under a Tasmanian Government license, and since then, up to the end of 1909, £6.273.537 had been iuvnsted in 413 consultations. The annual amount has fluctuated a good deal. For 1909 it was £448.750, which is the lowest but one. High-water mark was reached in 1906, when £602,750 was handled. As regards totalisator betting in Tasmania, it may be mentioned that the amount invested on 87 racing days in 1900 was £77.550. In 1909 there wero seven less racing days, but the investments were £171,388. In 1900 the Treasury derived £475 from the totalisator. In 1909 its dividend was £1713. The investments for four years compare thus:—-1908, £129,201; 1907, £137,385; 1908, £153,036; 1909, £171,----888. * * * x By relying upon themselves the workers can secure their ultimate freedom. --" * * * The worker with hinges on his knees that are ready to close when in. the presence of a boss is a scab at heart.

Judas Iscariot is fit company for ©very sneak and spy in the ranks of organised labour. * * * When a worker finds himself dismissed from his job and wonders where to turn to provide for his wife and little ones, doesn't the "identity" . of interests of Capitalism and Labour fall a bit flat. * * * In this identity of interests business, is it not strange that the bosses' interests always seem to be on top? * ■■*..-* The Industrial Union teaches that there can be no identity between the worker and the slave-driver, statements to the contrary notwithstanding. * * * We hear working men complacently talking about agreements between man and master. Where there are masters there must be slaves. What are you? * * * '.-■ A worker who is class-conscious is one who recognises that his interests are irrevocably bound up with the interests of his class- —that there is no hope of his permanent betterment till that of his entire class is bettered. The only reason why the entire Capitalist class unites to toll the working class that Socialism is valueless is because it knows that Socialism's general acceptance would moan an ending of privilege. * ' * * As an everyday weapon on the industrial field," can any opponents of' industrial unionism show in what- way it can be surpassed by their methods of organisation? When personal feeling is replaced by common sense, the N.Z.F.L. will embrace every organised worker in New Zealand. * - * * By increasing the circulation of Thk Worker, you are hastening the day of j Labour's triumph.