To New Zealand Waterside Workers.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 35, 3 November 1911, Page 7

To New Zealand Waterside Workers.

Some Reasons Why Yoflf Should Join the Federation of Labor.

1. You have tried arbitration, anil t§ has failed you. Your wages to-day af@ on the lowest possible scale; your COS* ditions of employment are humiliatittg in the extreme. ; 2. Craft unionism, as'out of data; ifi can* combat no longer the forces of thai huge shipping and carrying monopolies -of which you are the victims. 3. There is but one remedy—lNDUS* TRIAL UNIONISM. An army co* posed of wage-workers, the slaves of _at., dustry, must be united into one bodjG* 4. You want a fighting union. TE_& New Zealand Federation of Labor i& such a body. Join it. Get into it. Tltf* Federation of Labor has improved m_fr> terially the conditions of its presenS membership. IT WILL IMPROVTS YOURS. What it has done for tbft miners it will do FOR YOU. . . For 2s per member year you t*** come live members of this fighting or*ganisation; you have free legal adncS upon all questions affecting your occupation. For that sum you have bebiadl you a paper to fight your cause as able asf any paper in the Southern Hemisphere* which is the property of your fellow* workers. All expenses of delegates to annual conferences are paid by the Federation. Your comrades of the waterfront afl' Auckland, Lyttelton' and Westpori. have taken the lead. They have decided for their own independence and for class emancipation. DO LIKJ__« WISE. R. SESVIPLE, '■ Organiser N.Z.F.Uu ■ ■■'■"'■ - i :l y