The Mighty Atom.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 26, 1 September 1911, Page 13

The Mighty Atom.

EL M. Fitzgerald, well-known in' the Socialist movement of New Zealand, is reported to be on the eve of departure from ' Vancouver, 8.C., to Sydney.

* as * J. Goldsmith, well known throughout the mining centres of N.Z., is now at Powlett River, Vie. "Jack , " is secretary and check weighman of the local Union, and apparently the same outspoken critic as of yore.

Councillor E. R. Hartley, of Bradford, England, chosen by the National Executive N.Z. Socialist Party, will arrive here in October next. H© is bound to do a power of good. Friend Hartley is accompanied by his wife.

Selma Lager lof, winner of the Nohel prize for literary effort, declared herself a Socialist at the Women's Congress held in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mr. H. Cosrder, of Sunderland, England, at present in N.Z., is doing valuable work in the anti-conscription agitation.

W. F. Reis, author of "Men and Mules," and other snappy propaganda pamphlets, has been selected as Socialist candidate for Mayor of Toledo, Ohio.

Mayor Seidel, Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee, who was seriously injured through the explosion of a gas stove, is, according to the latest files to hand, fully recovered from his accident.

L.. Guiterrez De Lara is the principal figure in the working-class movement in Mexico. When the armed forces were engaged in overthrowing' Diaz the Dictator, De Lara was a leader and director. Now he is touring Mexico organising and .>—-Tcating the Mexican towards -<iTe Social Revolution.

Rev. W. J. Williamson, of St. Louis, U.S.A., in addressing a graduating class of college students,, said: "When your fathers wrote the cheques which paid for your education, they gave the fruit of the toil of other men. 5 ' Next, please.

President White, of the United Mine Workers of North America, says that from information gathered through a visit to all the States and Provinces of the United States and Canada, that there are at least 200,000 members of his oi'ganisation unemployed.

Thomas A. Hickey, one of the oldest and toughest battlers in the Socialist movement in America, has started a paper in Texas. He issues this warning regarding his venture: ' 'Look out for the red ink and Texas injunctions and governmental interference."* He will be hot, for sure.

"I was 50 years old before ever I saw a stage play/ 3 writes W. T. Stead in the "London Daily Chronicle." "I am now 62, but 1 never saw a , footleall match until Saturday, when Mr. G. P. Sims lured mc to the Crystal Palace to see the cup tie between New Castle and Bradford. I have not yet seen a horse race. lam keeping tbat experience until I complete my three score years and ten. There is a certain novelty about the impression produced on a mind of, mature age by sights familiar to most people from their boyhood.

The one really impressive thing, tke thing , which draws Lord '-iosebery <and many another staid and serious oiserver to the cup tie —that is, the crowd. The immense sea of faces reminded mc nothing so much as *o"f a i..hell-etrewn, pebbly beach, rising shoreward®. And every shell and every pebble on that living beach presents a human soul intent on nothing so much in heaven and earth as whether zebra coat or orange and .crimson should kick a leiather covered bladder between two white posts. Seventy thousand of them! The whole British, garrison in India, upon whose discipline and valour depends the Roman peace which we maintain among 350,000,000 of Asiatics is just about as numerous. Just about twice as many are all the blue jackets by which Britannia ri.les the waves. Rome gathered 80,000 into her Colosseum and 250,000 into her Circus Maxiintis. , '

H. Messenger, the brilliant N.S.W. Rugby player, will not take the trip to England with the Australians in the Northern TJnian team. Business reasons prevent him goiing. In addition to Messenger, some- others have dropped out of the team. Each member is to be allowed £2 per week honorarium, which term sounds better than wages. Kugby player, will not take th. etrip to