A PLEA FOR A BADGE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 26, 1 September 1911, Page 16

A PLEA FOR A BADGE.

Dear Worker, —In your editions you are always telling us to organise and advance our unions to the goal of solidarity and. com'radesbip. Seeing this, I would ask if you do wot think it is time that, now our Federation is over 7000 strong and growing in. membership, there is room for more thaai ono organiser or that tJio time has come for us to follow the lead of the American Federation, of Miners in their endeavour to make each brother an organiser by giving every member tlie Union button with the motto of the Federation engraved on it? Also, a code of sign-s and handshakes, so we could know a brother when, we saw him although a stranger personally. How often are there times when we could assist one another of our class if we knew him. Seven thousand buttons wonild give you 7000 organisers in a small way, for when wearing the badge or button, eight out of every ten not in a union will ask you wlxat the badge is meairt for? I may state there a<re thousands oai this coast solid workers who have never seen our organiser or heard a decent oration on the good fruits that can be obtained by Industrial Unionism; also, "there are other thousands who would not go two yards to hear our organiser speak, their minds being so biassed against him by reading of him in Conservative and Liberal papers. I for one hope and trust the button badge of fellowship will become a factor of organisation. -. —I am, etc., Waiuta. J. PFAFF.