The Mighty Atom

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 36, 10 November 1911, Page 9

The Mighty Atom

SGOTT BENNETT'S TOUR.

(By Wire.)

RUNANGA, Monday

Insert in this week's issue that Scott Bennett's tour under the auspices of the Federation of Labor finishes with a big meeting in Wellington on Sunday. Bennett compelled to get back to Auckland.—GLOVEß.

« * * HICKEY'S CAMPAIGN (By Wire).

Waihi, Monday.

Campaign proceeding apace. Enthusiasm increasing. Union Hall crammed on Saturday and Sunday nights to hear Hickey and Senvple. Prospects decidedly encouraging. Semple at his best—made lasting impression.—lvlcMlLLAN.

Willie Pantzer, who talks so interestingly on our sporting page, will be remembered as the exceedingly clever acrobat of the "Jack and the Beanstalk" pantomime.

John Bond writes this week on the Social Revolution. Though he is not to-day so prominent in the Labor movement of Queensland as he was some years ago, there" are some who will never forget his help and guidance. He has sat on the Central Political Executive (the chief Labor governing body), has attended Labor conferences, lias been- a candidate for Parliament, and has started weighty auxiliaries of working-class interests. A deep reader and deeper thinker, John Bond, but for his own reticence and self-efface-ment, might have been enjoying the place and power reaped' by others who have sown not.

"V\ r e are very sorry to hear that H. E. Holland, though hard at editorial work in his home, is still unable to walk. It seems dreadful that one so sturdy and so necessary should be prostrated. How much his incarceration in Albury jail has had to do with his physical "break-clown" can only be surmised—but for what that jailing represented may there be a terrible retribution.

The class war is a stark reality. To deny its existence (says Victor Grayson in the "Clarion") is to confess yourself purblind. The workers are fighting desperately for an extra crust; the employers are fighting ruthlessly to maintain their idleness and luxury. The broken heads and bloody faces of strikers and soldiers are more eloquent, instructive, and conclusive than oceans of theory and libraries of books.

In his message to Congress in December, 1861, Lincoln said; "Labor is. prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed first. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

An interesting election .incident was related, by Professor Mills in the course of a lecture at Christ-church. One election in America, he said, was fought on the issue of red hair. It seems that one of the candidates was so adorned, and an opposition journal jibed at him on that account. He retaliated by appealing to all his red-haired brethren in the electorate for support. That support came freely, and with it support from other quarters, with the result that the candidate with the gaudy locks wes elected.

Apropos of the cable news that Maeterlinck, the famous Belgian dramatist and author, had been awarded the Nobel prize of £8000 for literature, Maeterlinck's remarkable allegorical play, "The Blue Bird," will be staged in Australia next year by J. C. Williamson, Clarke and Meynell. The play has been booked for a long English provincial tour, after which the company comes to Australia and, of course, New Zealand.

The letter in last issue ' entitled "That Industrial Exhibition and its Apostles" should have been signed "W. KILGOUR." "Post Bag" crowded out this week. Read the announcement on page 7.