NORTHERN ECHOES.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 50, 23 February 1912, Page 10

NORTHERN ECHOES.

Mrs. Emily Nicol, secretary Domestic Workers' Union, writes:— "Tho Maoriland Worker" will be Siado welcome *t Hobsonville, Auck-

land, by the members «d the Clay Workers' t'nioii, who have nad U< s<-ek the help of the Federation of Labor to extricate them from ai. uuplea.vaii! little bit of compulsory trading. The Hubsonville brain I 1 intends taking a ballot as to entering the Federation. Individually, the;. :uc almost to a man l'j>r it. and from a!i account- '■o is the parent branch at Avondale. One thing the Federation bat broiigb; to light, and that is tin w< aknest- of the individual union. Th*- president and secretary of the General Laborers' I'ninn ar,e a veritable, strength to the Federation themselves, and long may they be in the van of Labor leaders. It should be a matter of recommendation to 'various unions, especially in country districts, that the wives of members be admitted to their meetings. They are much a part and parcel ot the union as the men. The women would prove a great factor in unity and a mighty helper in times of labor trouble. ' The vote is claimed for woman as her right, and yet ma.n keep* her beyond the boundary of labor or union knowledge. The future must hold no shackles for the woman, either mentally or physically. As the labor ranks move onward, woman must take her place in those ranks.