IN REPLY TO "THE VAG."

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 44, 12 January 1912, Page 18

IN REPLY TO "THE VAG."

Dear Comrade, —In your Christjhurch Comments this week there are Jome siatements that cannot go unanswered. "The Yag" says that some fcuckoos" followed the Socialist candidates-* meetings and told the people not Jo trust the Socialists. I must say here Shot the whole reference to us I.WAV's ]Uias "cuckoos" and camp followers, is % tissue of lie* from start to finish. tJono of us went to any election meetinga of either Fred Cooke or Ted "Bownrd, and the only person who . fccckled these men was a mom her of •ho Socialist Party, who says he is an Industrialist. According to "Tho ,Sfag," we tell the workers to join tiuvthing that exists in our iinaginaan. Well, our imaginations must he. fcery large, if they contain the F.0.L.. Beeauso we advocate tluvt the workers Khali join that bedy. ■ WLy cajiT.ot women join the Industrial Union? Every woman who is a .Wage-worker's mother, wife, or daughiter should bo eligible for membership in the One Big Union. •Then "The Yag" goes on to call us (Bamp followers, and says wo are never found in the fighting line. Who first taught Ono Big Union in Ohristchurch ? SN&s it nob these sain© camp followers? jfcjnd were they not told that the Socialist platform was no place to talk industrial unionism from?

"The Vag" further indulges in a Satituous sneer at us by saying wo are constant communication with t3ie ««aw- a statement he known faj) well

U. bt' uiit.'iie. Eiei'.Miin 1 ol us is as 11 m te hit* ehisv as "flu Yag" claims if i.e. We- ilid not liiih at I In- Jirst sign ol I rouble, and have been always h> 1 ii-.■ fighting line. ;\<-ver made any i oiiwr.s! Aii\lmm!\ who knew the |K.'silifii ol 1-he I'iiriilchureh Socialist i'any on lni!ii'.|-rial ("monism uvn veals ago. and ei.in|iari'il ll.al jiosilion wiih their pn-soul-day one. would admit, thai we i;;m made a huge amount of progress. II "The Vag" thinks that, such misrepreseiiiaiioii as he indulges in will stop us lolling the truth, and making I lie Chrisiehnreh Socialist Party a real revolutionary l»oil,\, iusiead of the .Johu-nv-alf-suiis kind of organisation it * to-ila\. h<' is greatly mistaken.—-I am. «ours lor one union, SVi). KJXd'SFOHI), Seerota.rv ('hristchureh Propaganda Branch N.Z.F.L.