RUNANCA MANIFESTO TO CONSCRIPTS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 32, 8 March 1912, Page 6

RUNANCA MANIFESTO TO CONSCRIPTS.

To Conscript Lads of N.Z

"Wo, the undersigned, refuse to comply with the Defwice Act, and aro dotennined to passively resist it under all circumstances, regardless of the pains and penalties which have been threatened Ijy tho weak-kneed (■overnlrve.nt. There are 13..000 lads who have refused to register, and who hold sftnilar views to ours: 10,000 lads who wero medically <'xaniiiivtl were cr.st aside.

Why should you be com pel led to drill while they jj;o free?

J)o yon really like to be compclk-:] to shoulder arms?

Most of you certainly do not

AYe (all on you also to make a sttuitl for your personal liberty. Join us in our military strike against conscription. Tho military authorities cniiLot deal with 13.00(1 of us who have struck. If you strike ulmi. what fan they do? Nothing.

Tlh'ii why oLfv them? We call en. , v<ni to refuse.

Jas. Nnttallj Thos. Garvy, J. Fitza;ibboiis. J. McTaggart, W. Kennedy, A. Sliaw, I{. Smith, WAVard, J. Kimnirr, F. O'Neill. Ja 8. Carry, 11. Gnthardt. M. Garry,, T. Franklin, 1J T . Curran, J. W. «iehmond. T A. Smith, AY. Dalzelji. G. I'inn, A. Kyle, T. Laiißrido;e, T. I'vir-iK-11, J. Malo'ny. W. Kobson. T. Jones, Jos. Curvy, J. Kyle, G. Jlrers, E. liainaiic, S. Naisbitt,' G. Deniston, .7. Southward. W. Henderson, 1?. MβTii<;t:art., L. Hunter, D. Shawd, <?. (.'ahlwcll, J. Conlthard, J. Armstrong, H. O'Neill—per Jas. Nuttnll, secretarr.