THE COMIC PAPER.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 45, 19 January 1912, Page 12

THE COMIC PAPER.

Newspaper men are funny folk. Ask the staff if you doubt mc. F'rinstance. I read in a daily paper that the workers arc making demands that the employers cannot grant —9s and 10s per day. The writer perhaps dfd not know 'that in the same issue there was , a statement that an American woman — beg pardon, lady—required £340 a year (nearly a pound a day) for dress, and that another paragraph told of an Eastern potentate whose daily bill at a Paris hotel was £240 a clay. If the Eastern had not been ''a potentate," I suppose they would have called him a nigger. Anyway, if he had been a worker, even a potentate couldn't get i £240 a day on the railways, in the mines, or even in the building trad<v

I wonder hq\V long working men and women will buy and read newspapers which are always tolling thorn that they and their families are not worth 10s a day for doing the work of the world, and at the same time tolling them that the idlers and their wivos are worth ten or a hundred times as muohr .

The fact is that 'when the workers put a proper value on themselves other people will do the same.

The only necessary people are the workers. The only useful people are the, workers. Whom the workers are thoroughly united, they will take the wealth which the.y alone create. It will b© a poor look-out for potentates, Eastern or Western, white, yellow, brown or black, if they do not do their fair share of the world's work. Socialism means death to the idler. This may be an answer to the question, "What will you do with the idler under Socialism?" Nothing I When he does nothing there will soon be an end.