The Mighty Atom

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 44, 12 January 1912, Page 8

The Mighty Atom

In the course of an interview with tho representative of the "Daily Herald," S.A., Mr. J. Havelock Wilson; general secretary of the National Seamen's Union, was asked:—"ls this your first visit to Australia!''" "No. Thirty-live years ajio I uas sailing to aaul from Sydney and Newcastle. Port Stephens and other small ports in the coasting beats. I was in the fatuous schooner Lady Kninia, of (id tons, ::iid I was also on a little ketch culled the Kate, which also used to trade on the New South Wales coast."

Says "Harrier Daily Truth": Air. Charles W. Green hau informed "Harrier Daily Truth" that it in the intention of Mr. H. SW.i Bennett, the eloquent speaker, to visit Broken Hill before his departure tor America. A meeting of the Barrier Socialist Group will be held shortly for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements. Mr. H. Scott Bennett is one of the best platform men who has been heard in Australia, ami the people of the Barrier may be- assured of an intellectual treat, Recently Mr. Scott llennett debated with I'roi'o.Mir Mills in New Zealand.

Jean Jaures. leader of the French Socialists in th" f'l-..d-v of Deputies, will in all probability tour Austi ( and New Zea la nd she. 11 v. 1 1 is .1 an res intention to deliver a series of lectures wihle in the lands of the Southern Cross.

Dick Cbestiintt. well known on the West Coast con! fields, is now sreretary of Million Miners. I nion, Mullan. Idaho. U.S.A.

Jack Desmond. vic<-pi su ent ol Grevnmuth wharf la bo re is end sterling industrialist, was a caller at this <i ♦m his way to ti.e Cons-, .nice a visit, to Australia.

Horr Fracdorp. Socialist member of the Germon KeiAslai;. has been elect, d vice-president of that body.

General Hcyes, who engineered the last Mexican revolution, is now a I native in the United States., and is under Btrice- surveillance by the Department of Justice.

Due to the energy and enterprise ol Miss Mary Macarthur. secretary of the Women's Trade Union League, the claims of 15.000 wna-n who went on strike reccnlly in London have b-en settled. Miss Macarlhur is descr.oiil as a buxom, rosy-ch-ked Scotswoman with flaxen hair and expressive violet eyes, who docs not i.c.moss you as one who has been a battler on behal o her sex in the Labor cause. }et it is doubtful if there is another iving; woman who knows more alviit the conditions and history of «omen s wok She has proved the Inllacy of that eenerally-acceptcd notion that you cannot successfully organise women, tor in eight years she has raised the membership of the league from 40,000 to 200,000. "It is all nonsense, she ; says. "this talk about the impossibility to organise women, and 1 have proved it.

W. A. Yeitch, M-P. for Wanganm. has resigned the position of President A.S.H.S. He was elected to the position in 1908. and has been re-elected since. It was during Mr. Veitch s term of office that the unfortunate split occurred in the ranks of the railway employees.

Organiser Semple and President Webb, of the N.Z.l'\L,, arrived in Wellington on Sunday for the purpose of representing the Federation in the Waterside Conference with the shipping companies.

Shoaf, the "Appeal to Reason correspondent who so mysteriously disappeared from Los Angeles during tno McNamara Bros.' trial, is now being dtmounced as a I'iukerton labor spy and a tradueer of young girls, by a section of the Socialist press. It is stated that whilst acting as special correspondent for the "Appeal" he did his best to create labor disputes, and tjlnui earn considerable kudos as a correspondent in receipt of inside information. In a letter to the National Executive, Socialist Party, demanding an investigation of the' Shoaf case, Ernest Unterman, the distinguished author and lecturer, charges Shoaf with having abducted and seduced his daughter, Elsa TJntcrmaii. Tho reason why Shoaf disappeared from Los Angeles, Unterman alleges, was because of fear of exposure of his leperous character.

F. E, O'Flynn. headmaster Runanga State School and sterling democrat, was a most welcome caller at this office last week.

Madanie Curie, who won the Nobel prize (valued at £800) for science, has conducted a wonderful research into the field of chemistry. In 1903 she shared with her husband, the late Professor Curie, half of the Nobel prize for physics. Since her husband's death she has continued in the most painstaking investigation, and her achievement-; have placed her among the world's greatest scientists.

Rev. Dr. Alfred W. Arundel, pastor of the Trinity Episcopal Church at Pittsburg, Fa., has resigned in order to enter the work of propagating Socialism. His congregation petitioned him to remain and parted with him with tears. He is regarded as a power and a decided gain for the Socialist ronvoment.

The block herewith is from a reoemT portrait of Mrs. Dora B. Moiitelioie, whose illuminating "I/cti-ers to -\\ oiikoi" ha\e jii'-t heen • concluded in

"The Worker." Mrs. -Montefiore is ■leavinu Sydney fo" South Africa on .January 2!>, j)i r the Tinmistocles. She .uocs to Johannesburg 10 lend Archie

\.'iaw ford a hand wi'.h the "Voice of Lrbnv." and consequently will not be able to visit New Zcul.uid. She writer flea.se express my regret to all comrades whom 1 was looking forward to im''tiny. As mr as pr.opaga.nda "lies, ie seems to mc you are, well provided