NOTES FROM THE NORTH.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 43, 5 January 1912, Page 13

NOTES FROM THE NORTH.

News has come through that the Conscription Act is to be earned out. Comrades, listen! If any attempt i* made to enslave Huntly boys there s Koin-r to bo trouble. The workers «ro arousiHl from the stupor of capital;.™), and Huntly people will declare war on .. ir •» J,ot tho war-birds romc —we arc " ' ,<m who would dare train our luioht, promising boys to be murdererB c and be we, th< lhmtk industriitl wage-slave:- haw something to say to you. Snys the '-N.Z. Herald; , An- ' ;.ml.

"A deputation of the Auckland Trades and Labur Council, headed by Mr. C. Ingram (president) and Mr. T. Walsh (secretary} waited on Mr W. F. Massey on Saturday and officially congratulated him on the success of the Reform Party at the general elections." Behold the reflection of the unity schemers! By the way, when tho monopoly ir. Huntly read the decorated "Worker" there were anxious moments, and the minds that think the toilers should be well satisfied with their lot wer<i active. Meanwhile, Monopoly has gone on holiday, leaving behind the report that the hovels have to be emptied and the Socialists will then have to build houses for the people. Say, Monopoly, you never built the houses nor the mansions, for which you draw extortionate rents. You never drove a nail —we, the workers, have built them for you; what if we build for ourselves? Another eloquent protest was sounded in Huntly against the threatened encroachment upon the liberty of free speech. On the 15th December an excellent meeting was helil in the Prcsbytorian Church, presided over by T. H. Marshall. The Chairman, H. J. Beck, W. J. Butler, J. E. Duncan, H. E. Kedgley, and E. Hunter voiced an emphatic protest. There were good fightiiig speeches, and the audience appointed Messrs. Marshall, Duncan, and Butler to be present at the meeting on January 11, when the Board's confirmation of the notorious by-law is due. Have you heard that the Employers' Association is the latest to be added to the unity scheme programme? Ahem! A voice from the dark days of the past. Here are two interesting voices. They are culled from a song written by Mr. Fulton, father of Jas. Fulton, ex-president of the Wa-ikato Miners' Union, and member of the executive N.Z.F.L. Mr. Fulton was president for 40 years of the Permanent Relief Fund, County Durham. THE SLIDING SCALE. Come, all my hearty sons of toil, And listen to my tale: I'll sing to you a verse or two About the sliding scale. Our masters have tried many a plan, But at last the one they've found — A plan to slide the rich man up, And slide the poor man down. Chorus — Then don't believe the sliding scale For us they've done before; They will work all means, And try all schemes To slide us to the door.

The most astonishing fact to-day is the tolerance of tho working-class. But we are rising.—BlLLY BANJO.