To New Zealand Waterside Workers.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 2, 8 December 1911, Page 11

To New Zealand Waterside Workers.

Some -Reasons Why You Slioulcl cPbin Ihe Fecie>afciora of -Labtri*.

1. You have tried arbitration,, arid it has failed you. Your wages to-day aro on the lowest possible scale; your conditions of employment are humiliating in the extreme. 2. Craft, unionism is out of date; it can combat ho longer the forces of the huge shipping and carrying monopolies of which you are the victims. .3. There, is but one remedy—INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM. An army composed of wage-workers, the slaves of industry, must be united into one body. 4. You want a fighting union. The New Zealand Federation of Labor is such a body. Join it. Get into it. The Federation of Labor has improved, materially the conditions of its present membersuip/ IT WILL IMPROVE YOURS. What .it has done for the miners it will do FOR YOU. For 2s per member per year you become live members of this fighting organisation ; you have free legal advice upon all questions affecting your occupation. For that sum.yon have behind you a paper to fight your cause as able as any paper in the Southern Hemisphere, which is the property of your fellowworkers. All expenses of delegates to annual conferences are paid by the Federation. Your comrades of the waterfront of Auckland, Lyttelton and Westport have taken the lead. They have decided for their own independence and for class emancipation. DO LIKEWISE. R. SEMPLE, Organiser N.Z.F.L. ■

That the future belongs to Socialism. That self-seeking politicians are too pest of Maoriland and should be ban- ,. ished for ever. ' That it is futile to cry Peace I Peace! when there is no peace. That the only war in which the workers should take part is the Class War.