How to Win.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 39, 1 December 1911, Page 7

How to Win.

808 SEMPLE'S VIEWS.

BH| r /V Targe audience, including a' numbet wttt ladies, attended Montgomery's Hall, HHfcarangahakej to hear Mr. Semple on ■|How to Win." Mr. W. Smith oc■■upied the chair. Mr. P. H. Hickey Hras also present, and opened the nieetHHog with a ishort address, basing his on the necessity of the work* ■Hag people, when exercising their votes, measures before men. Study HRthe platform of the different parties your suffrages, he said, when had no fear that the Federation of B|labor's would be granted preference. was the only platform before the of New Zealand that embodied scheme for working-class advancejHf'Mr. Semple, on rising, was greeted hearty, applause. He stated that Hfthe -working-class movement, known as HEphe Federation of Labor, was based on [Bnodern scientific principles, and was in with modern industrial develThere was a time when craft Hgtnd sectional unionism had a chance of with the employing class. This Hpas in the days of industrial competibefore' the advent of the syndicombine, and trust. Now, howthe order of things had changed. ■Competition had been almost .eliminated ■in regard to production. The captains |Bpf industry, following the law of evohad seen the advantage of con■bemtration to facilitate production and ■consequently increase their profits, ■therefore the individually owned indusH&ry had! been displaced by the co-opera-H&ively owned industry. This left the Hrcraft unions entirely at the mercy of ■like employing class, hence it was neiHoessary for Labor also-to move in the Beanie direction as capital; to link up Hfthe craft unions into big unions ; to exHjfcend its lines the employers had esH&anded their lines with the object of Haaore successfully coping with the in■jtsreiased. power of the master class. The ■'speaker went on to point out that the ■new movement did not confine itself to ■•the industries, but was also making a Hi)id to- gain a footing in the political Harena. Up till the present time the Hsworkers had been content to allow the Htnembers of the master class to make H&nd administer the laws. That day, Hliowever, was passing, and the Lntelli- ■ 'gent section of the working class were ■ assured that their purpose would be I (better served if they had in the House ■ Sfiien who would give expression to ■ forking-class needs and views. Already Bjbhe Federation of Labor had been a ■ i&ucoessful factor in instituting many H Jnuch needed reforms, and only quite I recently forced Sir Joseph Ward to reI 'cognise domestic servants in the same H'toaniier as other employees. This had I l>sen done by placing on the Statute I 'Boole a law that gave to servants a I Claim under the Compensation' for AcciI Acb. The speaker then delivered I '& trenchant criticism of the. Arbitration I r Aefc and also the Medical Examination 'Act, which was, .through the efforts of tho Federation, expunged from the statutes three years ago. Hβ characterised the Act as a deliberate attempt ;to the part of the Government to assl3fc the master class to scrap the men whose health had become impaired in ithe mining industry, without making provision for their support or for the support of their.wives and children. •He offered to resign his position if Mr. .[Poland could show one word in the \ pages of Hansard raised by him in pro'ttesfc against this Act. The speaker was frequently applauded during the delivery of his spirited address, and was accorded on its conclusion a hearty vote of thanks. Three cheers were given for organised labor ib-efore dispersing.—' 'Goldfields Advoioate."