THINGS DOING AT HUNTLY.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 36, 10 November 1911, Page 13

THINGS DOING AT HUNTLY.

A public meeting of the Anti-Mili-tarist Council was held in the' Masonic Hall, Huntly, on the 23rd Ult. President H. J. Beck was in the chair. Great enthusiasm was displayed throughput. Noteworthy matter was fcrought forward. The president produced official documents issued by our war-lords to prospective musketeers. One lad who had never been medically examined was commanded to join a particular company. Other lads who had passed the doctor (who had pronounced them to be perfectly sound Sbr tlie Navy even, young'Dreadnought©rs veritably) were notified that owing to their being physically unfit they would not be required this year! The explanation to the milk in that cocoaOut is obvious—election timel

The following were the speakers:-— Messrs. Beck, Duncan, Fulton, Thompson, and Hunter. Militarism was roundly condemned. So convinced are the Waikato workers that the military question is an industrial one that tlie Waikato Miners' ■Union is joining in sending a delegate to the Anti-Militarist Conference. So one delegate will represent a powerful twdy of electors.

. The following remits were passed unanimously: "That members of the Council refuse to support any political candidate who is not in favour of the repeal of the Compulsory Training Act ©r the submitting of the same to a referendum of the people of New Zealand."

"That we, the members of the AntiMilitarist Council, recommend the Conference to consider the advisability of publishing in pamphlet form the articles by R. S. Ross and P. J. O'Regau, "Critics Answered," and "The Defence Act," "respectively, which appeared in the "Down with Conscription" issue of "The Maoriland Worker," fordis- /- tribution throughout the Dominion." The meeting concluded, after arranging speakers for an open-air meeting to be held at an early date, by singing "The Red • A meeting of anti-militarists was held at Hamilton on the 23rd tilt., which was .composed mostly of the youths How called upon to get behind the guns and slaughter machines. A resolution was carried: "That we will not submit to be drilled for fighting and absolutely refuse to handle rifles." Three cheers, comrades! —BILLY BANJO.