Model Dodgers.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 35, 3 November 1911, Page 9

Model Dodgers.

—4 ■ THE WAY OUT.

Industrial "Unionism, better known? as "The One Big Union," describes art; organisation of: the workers for *..t'hel purpose of taking and holding the land!, - and tools of production for the use of. all workers collectively. ';•'"' % : '■ In other words* this form of orgKmV sation is out for the .complete over** .'"■ throw of the present capitalist systeotri! at the place of production, and as ye# is the most effective and _ expeditioua weapon against capitalistic robbery, and oppression which the workers have: devised. When we consider that a worker in.' New Zealantd produces about £500.1. worth of .articles in a year and only:; receives on the average.less than £100j for so doing, is it not about time that, he organised into a union for-the sole.aim and object of getting the full value': of his productions? Is it hot about 1 ! time that he organised against,, this/ flagrant robbery?. For years he has pleaded, begged* and grovelled in an Arbitration Ootrrt 1 where it is' two* to one against-him getting his just demands conceded. He is tired of this stupid, one-sided "game, and when he. quietly thinks the position over, soon discovers that combination on class lines (instead of craft tinpot unions) is essentially more powerful and expeditious for v the achievement of his ends. He has seen the point at last—the working-class against the robbing capitalist class—the might of the workers as opposed to a' puny exploiting minority, who • inever work and never mean to work if they can by any means keep on robbing the tvorker. Consequently, the worker wisely decides to have done with any sympathy for such robbers for' all time. He has become' class-conscious, and'" thereafter votes with like-minded fellow-workers for the utter abolition of tho capitalist system. This he does in the workshop, the field and the factory, and also expresses his determination on all • occasions to rid the country of 'the smooth-tongued politician who clamors for the "job" of making laws to rule him in his daily life and work. These glib-spoken politicians think little of handing over to the ruling class enormous sums of money to be expended in Dreadnoughts, even when hundreds of their fellow-citi7X.ns are starving;,nay, they-even acquiesce in the compulsory training of an armed land .force .to quell the workers should they- (the workers) decide to rule themselves, !-eir country and their industries. Hitherto this ruling power has been the prerogative of the capitalist class "■ and its hirelings (and always to, .the detriment of the producers of wealth), but the dawn of Industrial Unionism ' is showing, the mighty sun of freedom is on the verge of the horizon, and will soon, shed his benign light o'er our fair land. ■ . • . . Fellow-workers, it is time to be up. foir unity in "the One Big Union." You have nothing to lose but your chains, and a world to gain; and remember that an injury to one ,even. the smallest, is an injury to al'L —NO T. MILLS. (The above is intended as a model "dodger" for candidates of the N.Z. , F-L. and the Socialist Party. We. invite others to try their pens at ; el_c. tion. leaflets —and will print the best re* ceived. —Ed.)