LABOR'S AWAKENING.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 33, 20 October 1911, Page 18

LABOR'S AWAKENING.

The Federal Labor "Union, recently organised at New Westminster, British. Columbia, and chartered by the American Federation iof Labor, has surprised, the natives of the Royal City by its growth and progressivenesß. One of the objects of the union is stated to be "to secure possession of the national industrial equipment (i.e., mines, mills, factories, etc.), with the object of securing to the working-class-es the total national product of labor. , ' The preamble in the constitution reads: "Judging from -the events that are -transpiring at the present time, when the conflict between the wage-earning class and the employers of labor is growing more pronounced from day to day, due to opposing interests arising out of'private ownership of the means ,of human existence, it behoves the \ wage-workers of all departments of human activities to unite upon the political and industrial arena into one huge association, for the avowed purpose of securing possession of all resources and the mechanical appliances used and created by the .workers in ''sxipplying the means of life, into the property of the whole nation, where all the toilers will benefit by all mechanical improvements in contradistinction tto the present method, where all changes only serve to enrich the private owners on the one hand and to I displace numerous wage-workers upon I the other, creating an army of ixnS employed and also fiercer competition, among the toiling masses."