MATINS AT THE WATERSIDE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 31, 6 October 1911, Page 8

MATINS AT THE WATERSIDE.

At 8 a.m. Freeman was struggling Avith a packing case many sizes too large to take the. usual quantity of soap the proverbial platform is supposed to have held. The croAvd Avas one to a speaker's heart, international +,o the last degree—Jew, Gentile, white, and black, German and Scandinavian, British, Irish and Maorilander Avere all there. Right at the jump economic truths Avere banged home. Comrade Parry, just convalescent, toAvored half a head above what Semple called "the doubled up, bent up, broken up lumps of toil." He beamed at Freeman's "Economics for children —young or otherwise ." The sun greAV Avarmer. The speaker came out Avarm too. The croAvd swelled. Had the John remained lie Avould have smelled out "obstruction" within the black eye of the 1-aAV'by iioav. Semple took a cool start. When he got agoing fragments Avere flying The Arbitration Court officials were" not Avorth preserving—except in pickle. The institution should be preserved in a museum Avith the craft union secretaries as shoAvmen. A vote of confidence moved-' by a jet black brother Avas carried with acclamation. Three cheers for Industrial Unionism Avas the concluding prayer at 11.15. Something is going to happen Avit'h the Avbarfies. Ask Glover —no kid about him. —FITZ.