"IN THINGS ESSENTIAL UNITY."

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 32, 13 October 1911, Page 15

"IN THINGS ESSENTIAL UNITY."

Preamble, We hold that all men are created to be free, and should have equal access and opportunity to the enjoyment of all benefits to be derived from their exertions in dealing with the natural resources of the earth, and that- free access and equal opportunity thereto are absolutely necessary to man's existence and the upward progress of the human race. Through the rapid gathering of wealth and the centreing of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands, Trades Unions are unable to cope with the ever-grow-ing power of tho -employing class, because Trades Unions foster a state of things which allows ono set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers, thereby helping to defeat one another in wage wars. These conditions can be changed and the interests of the working class upheld only by an organisation formed in such a way that if tlie necessity arises all its members shall make an injury to one an injury to all. Therefore we deem it necessary to organise and maintain the New Zealand Federation of Labor. Amongst our lawful purposes we declare moro especially our objects to be :—