Milk and Meat.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 23, 11 August 1911, Page 3

Milk and Meat.

When it is-evening ye -s&yg&t wftjtte fair weather, for tile sky i£- red. Slid; in the morning it- ivili ;b'e fo-ul weather to-day, for the_ .sky m red and lowering.. 0 ye hypocrites, ye can discern th'e face of the sky, but dan ye not discern the signs of the. times.—Jesus Christ. It is well to-recognise, that a form of industrial unioism which moans business may dispense with a, lot of salaried positions in the various organisations. *■ * * ■ Thus "Biljim ,;i : In New Zealand there must be ax least 41' salaried positions in the Labor rnuyvement. Taking t'k-e average wage to be £3 Ids a .week —a very low. conservative estimate— We pay in wages alone- £7200 to por- , manont employees. Whisper, do they do £7200 worih of organising work on behalf of prog-ress 1-* "" * '" * ~ * Granting that the capitalists have control of the maxim guns, have yon ever thought how useless they would fee if the workers controlled" industry through industrial unionism ? * ■]: * Morgan. Darwin. Marx! Names W conjure with—revclutkmisers of society—heralds of the coming freedom, j The trinity of the working class. i * * * . j Mercy dictated by fear is cowardice, | find a convincing sign of conscious I weakening. Yet when the. workers can present a sfolid front to back up their demands, ivo matter what they may be, we find the ruling dabs acquiescing in the justice of the demand. * ■ * * Ernest Sinclair, a convict i,n Sjng Sing, died in a. futile effort to save. a fellow prisoner from drowning. * ■ * ■« ■ Socialism conies not to .destroy life, bub to make it more abundant for all. —Torn Mann. * * * I/ord Eskgrove. when sentencing a prisoner to be hanged for the- murder ©f a soldier, dilated upon the crime as follows: —"And not only did you murder him, whereby ho was bereaved of his life, but you did thrust, or push, or pierce, .or project, or propel the lethal weapon through the waistband of his regimental breeches., which Were hie Majesty's!" vC- -X- -XThe average employer to-day is more concerned about the housing of his cattle than that of his workers or their dependents. Cattle cost money. a ■» ■* ■To be successful we must have work-ing-class loyalty. But that loyalty must be in support' of methods that lead to working-class advancement', otherwise it is useless. ft vf -if THE MOST DANGEROUS. "The scoundrel who fails can , never by any possibility be as dangerous as the scoundrel who succeeds, and of all men in the country the wol'et citizens., those who should excite in our minds the most contemptuous abhoren.ee-, are the men who have achieved great wealth or any otheo- form of success in any save a dean and straightforward way.''—Roost■ volt. * " =.- * The destruction of the poor is their poverty. —Solomon. '* * . * WRONGS OF THE POOR. Departures From tho old ways in things educational como in for hard raps, first and last, but' not often are they assailed as in this letter, which a glowering boy handed to his teacher . the other day :— "Madim you kope t-cling my -soiii to breeth with his dierfram I sepose rich boys and girls all has* dierframs bitt how about when theia - father only make 2 dollars a day and theres 4 younger I tel you it« enp.ug to make everybody Socialists first its one thing turd then its another and now its dierframs its too much." — "Woman's < Home Companion. ,,

Death is the big wimiea- in automobile races. * -35- -tt The most .remarkable feature about Christianity is the manner in which it has accepted ideas cnoe regarded and condemned as being worthy of "jjjiidcls" alone. * * * In the vast cemetery called the past are most of the religions of men, and there, too, are nearly all their gods.— ' Ingersoll. """ * * * With the workers organised in a Union, of their class, a politician or a government is a very puny tiling indeed. * * * .In connection with existing evil's, to roll- his eyes Stiggins-like to the skiefe and to talk about the "will of God." or "'a visitation- from providence" is the act of a moral and mental Inimbug. *■■ * * If Socialism did nothing else than clear wmvserism from the atmosphere and infuse a little- joy into life, it would be worth all the lighting for. * * *, When tin; workers realise that tfc.s workers are in tlie majority and can determine" tlie conditions under wliidh they are to live, we may behold the spectacle of the. workers- fighting for better oonditione. In the heat a.ncl enthusiasm e-f the coming..political fray it would be well if the workers never overlooked the fact that Industrial Unionism is greater and of far more importance than vote-grabbing. as * * Supply and demand. — Capitalism supplies the demand and then demands the supply.—"Appeal to Reason. :,

One out of every seven marriages in many of the States of America eiids in divorce. As a breaker-up of the home capitalism leads the way. * * * "Strike at the ballot box" sounds very nice indeed, but what are ive going to do in the meantime? Neglect unionism? Anyway, if we all "struck , " at the ballot box there would be no votes cast, consequently no politicians. What an awful thought! *'.* ■ i * Sudden conversions to the principles of Industrial IJniomsm on the. part of men who previously bitterly opposed, it want to" be eyed with suspiskm. * . * * Dear Editor,—A friend, of my youth used often to tell mc of his father's share in'the romantic escape of Kinkel from im-prisemment for his opinion. .1 remember a line of his song: '\G#i;friod Kinkel,' sehpimie! schpinne!" Kinkel was set to spin in prison.. I make the enclosed songlet for the "Wo-rkor."—Yours, Sidney Fonrnier. AN ECHO OP '43. Gottfried Kinkel, spin it! sem it! Love and life and death are in it. In the noisome prison room, Through the din, the reek and gloom, Breaks the new immortal bloom. Raise your pattern, high and clear: "Mankind fighting to be freer!" Weave it, Gottfried! Weave it! weave it! Cast your shuttle. Never, leave it! Through the world so wide and hard All that wasted labor yard, We-11 your spinning has been heard, And your loom shall now not be Siletit—till • th'e • bond are freel I