Auckland Election.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 57, 12 April 1912, Page 8

Auckland Election.

The coming Mayoral ■elect \m\ will jiil-onl iiu» citizens i>l Auckland an opportunity of pa.s-.ing judgment upon the urroguuit and tyrarnik'al altitude, assumed b.v tin , public bodies ol that oily towards organised labor, it will [iLace in tiie hands oi tho people a weapon to destroy an oligarchy, wll-appoiiik-d, which, to serve its own capitalistic ends, would pliutge iho city into the stress and turmoil oi' an industrial upheaval. ' If the citizen.* of Auckland are desirous of dancing to the tune of the Employers' Federation, of transfonn•ing their City Council into a uuionsinashing concern, they cannot do better than vote for C. .1. Parr. The unionists of that city, with creditable unanimity, recognising the gravo danger which threatened work-ing-class organisation if the attitude of the present Mayor were allowed to pas 3 unchallenged, have entered the coutfst. For this purpose tli-e choico has fallen upon Mr. Hall-Skelton ; ami the choice having bc-en made, the workera' duty is plain: t<o organise their forces; to get votes; to make success certain. If the thousands of unionists only do their duty the issue; will not be in doubt for one moment. In the face of the insults and epitefulness of tli* present inc-unibent-, surely tho issue cannot be in doubt. Apart from his treatment of organised Labor, Mr. Parr has sliown nothing but hostility "towards many movements which are of a democratic nature, iiis refusal to extend to the Home Rule delegates tho common co\irtes,y usually shown to distinguished visitors being a case in point. These men, the chosen of a nation to represent it in this country, were not treated with civic respect by Auckland's Mayor. C. J. Parr. Probably if instead of representing a people demanding justice for a mueh-wrongod race, they were effeminate members of snobocra«y, thero would have been a nnusesting exhibition of obsequiousness by Auckland's 'Tirsb citizen." If ordinary ea.ro is taken in marshalling forces., the- men and women workers of Auckland City will be able to demonstrate to their fellows throughout New Zealand thai they resent in no uncertain \va v » the attitude adopted by the Auckland civic authorities. If Mr. Hall-SkeJton is placed at the head of the poll it will moan that the citizens of Auckland have passed a vote of censure upon those who would uso public bodies to fight unionism. Let from now on .till the poll is declared to be a campaign, of dwds. Let it be characterised by working-class enthusiasm in the niost vital fight which they have been called upon to make for some time. Let every union official, unionist, and sympathiser do his or her level best in the Mayoral contest. Let all hostilities between all sectioiis of tho workers cease in view of the common crisis, and every nerve' strained to make victory ours. Hall-Skelton for Mayor 1 f JHiat is the bouuden duty of Auckland's men and women. Hall-Skolton as Mayor of Auckland means union-smashing C. J. Parr relegated to that obscurity to which ho rightly belongs. I'nion recognition must be obtained. Auckland's j>ublic bodies cannot flout xmionism. Lot the citizens remember that a vote for Hall-Skclton means a vote for the recognition of unionism.