SHEARERS' SECTION

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 54, 22 March 1912, Page 12

SHEARERS' SECTION

By M. LARACV

li is ic-portt.'d t!i:il ;i niiin'd , : - nf mills i;i \\\c Aslilii<i'(<!M aii'l mi her ili<! rii'lr) Ay- W-AW& artiii'i.i! i')J>.: ;») l>t 1 !><■ toils i , ;i'.o adjotiriii'd for Il.i , .V> is conti-ary to ill* , coiiflil unis ol' 'ii".' :i». iii'd c<'\"i'i inij; tin - ' siiiiiL , , mmlls, tinL:|lmr i)c;i;il I.tin , lii li:lVi' lii-'il r>'(|nested '.c s'ci) in, ;md \\i< can c\. .ii to !I = -;ir !:.>.irf niton. o>i the -Itli iiisi., 3 u'"!ii xo heir ,Svi>\v Univiiani ;Htd Alt'. Av>T.v in the Alexandra Ila 11, mid, ;is I. ok-lii'-'tcd, tlic attendance was .small, !ml tl)i.s> could bo accounted lor without kiniieh trouble. Through an error wiiicii (Ti-pt- into the a'lvcvtisonioitt vo vo,p> |.>-;1 to l)r>-Ik-vo that the object vi (ho n;wl ing ■.vas to fc.nn a Liberal-Labor oi'iiiUiisatio!i in Llu'isichurch. This was, vi course, u> iiio '.vorliers hero like showing a red mi.; to a bull, i* Liberal and Labor alliances arc of the past. I , 'rani this lime forward Labor must stand on its own. It cannot afford to join hands with any party but the* Socialist Party.

Libeiiil-ljaljor ions aro no tVtr us. As an old comrmlo id VVanga ii'ii puts it, 1 say —Labor tirst, last and nil tlio time.

Many are discussing th»« probability of one of the Labor four boeoniiny a Minister of the Crown. This may <'i)ine to pass, though I find it hard to believe; but it so, that one would no longer represent Labor in my opinion. M hen a. Labor member accepts a portfolio it can and should only be in a Labor Ministry, and J trust that this is not a remote contingency. The .Shearers' Conference, will open Wellington on Tuesday, April 0 (Easter Tuesday), and the business paper is a lengthy one. The most important questions to be deilt with will be (lj The establishment of one ceulial ofliee through which the whole of the business of the Association will Ik , transacted; (2) the abolition of private registry offices, against which institutions the country toilers intend to put up a solid light.

As I intend going into this matter at some length in a futiiry issue, I will not deal with it in thewo notes, further than to request all workers to assist in the fight for the abolition of private, registry offices and the establishment of Government labor bureaux in lieu thereof.

Martin V'j'.ughi'.n, advertised for in tho following extract from an Australian paper, shore in Marlborous'h last season, and 1 have reason to believe he i.s at the present time upon a mill in Canterbury: Lee and Kelly. -If Martin Vauyhan, R. Lee and P. Kelly, who shore at Merrywim-bone anil Muniryer Inst season, will :it c.ih , .' eonimiiinVat« with Mr. J. M. McDonald, .solicitor, iVarrabri, tliey may hear of something advantageous U> them."

Kaitanc;ata was preceded by a memorable drive from Balclutha station to the field, ihe meeting; was goxi, the ljoys said, but tlio yarn with Uninn Piesident Sim, l S<'ciH-l.a'ry Rid'd and Socialist Party President HencWsoM and a few oilier 'spirits was hotter, I thou-riit. 1 leanit niueJi of unionism at and left witl) a biy and genuine adi;:iration for the union officers— lrmsc may they reiy;u! From Comrade J.lciidor.ion 1 ascertained that th<j newly-lonn'vd Socialist, Party would loam no stone unturned t<o j/iak'o aiv impression upon, its chosen si)he,re. It, was after when our comproheuiivo talk elided.

j (Si mult aneou sly with, the holding qf our m-e*>tiiij; the minors' 5<111.5 of ivaiwere bciii'j; drilled, for conscript duty, S-omoone. .scornfully cl.-riinod that in iiulusti'inl upheaval 'he said minors' sons wouldn't- !io ol' much service to their tutors. Grievous error, it appeared to mc. I'ov in the hour of crisis —should it come —the ehnnevs are ten lo 0110 that tho Kaitan<>:»ta miners' sons' bullets will lie directed to their lathers rather than to their tutors. It is iv tho system—training lies (hat way. Tho military tutor supersedes the fa till or. ]Cf<itfm.L>at,i looks a liapjiy place of settled p<'oplo; aud yet, do you kno-w, 1 fear that the acquiescence of tlio father iv tho son's -wnipelled military training ia likely enough to l>e the aequipsoence b' - ''({l):!;j; tlit servility which will mean tho son's subjection ~-a veritable* maithinr; brtckward, uot\vi(h standing Lliat nn father *»ve,s who would not liavo bis son's lot a , ;. idvaiX'Cn:e;it upon lii:> f;'LJ!)(»r'.-i. !b , early e.T next iuo''i.n^-— nud O (hf i'Jdj'.v of an fwr.-ich i'.".'ini'~y i!ii-j")!i:.'Ji ("en-sr'ciit-%1 coidi-iryi-a'ul a!t<'r p day ih \\'.q train, f!)!!-.)'.v<i(l hy a nielli", in (ln> ">in*, land- • i i>; Wi'iliii. 'u:i cj'j a !'"ri'•:(',', \vfiik!;r- ;- in;\ •!' !. i;:'d;rt. bet-y. n]>-.,• :>f- 'for w.--):s. si ).m !i b.',d I M-'cii ,'i!vl heard and ■'j ■'.m"( 1. S;i:iie oi vihieli may or may | no(. be L.»KI— but all of ivlii'.h lr.i.isi. <: whair-viT niav be \w-;Ue!i. V,-m, it U go.id to (rav<-I. i>ut ivJien a •'•hii'i of t;io f>en I ravels iiud 'seo3 copy in every second and a pii'tuix , in overy sie[), of what avail to baldly recwuit 'i lii.s or That in a oolunm whon liie Other demands re-.uiis? Tjje Eyk. r.3.—My deep thaji'cs to the hospitable affinities who sheltered 1110 0' nipjits, and iilU'd 1110 witli food and friendship.