DOMINION DOINGS

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 57, 12 April 1912, Page 10

DOMINION DOINGS

A\ SPECIAL REPORTS OF THE MOVEMENT IN THE CENTRES /

WAIKATO WASHINGS

Time effaces all its sons, and waehes them away. Walter Harry Jl-ayn-r (Watty) passed through the portals oi Buffering into tho vast unknown on the 22nd ult. His parents and family Will miss an affectionate son an< brother: all we who knew him will miss a merry dm in. Horn to sniier »nd toil, he lived in laughter land, good-bye, old pal, we still retain iv« memory of your bright and pleasant laugh. Hunih has become noted for its ar.timilitarist in more ways tluui one, but the latest move beats all passive resistors, etc., into fits. The new-born progeny arriving in this town recently ire all girls. They'll have to oiganiee an Amazon corps for Huntlv ii things continue thus. General Godley, please note. Speaking V)f progeny reminds mc that there are very few people who can lay claim to 53 descendants, as Grandma Green can. i'et such a record did not prevent our gracious Government from prosecuting her tor ruling in a superior compartment with an inferior ticket on December 2G, lilli, from Auckland to Huntly, when, as is usual at holiday times, there were no available seats elsewhere. Neither did it prevent the magistrate from imposing a line for such heinous (?) offence. Yet one distinctly remembers, during the 190bi parliamentary elections, some Government members suggesting that all mothers of five children should have a free pass over Government railways. All M.P.'s ride free in the superior compartments of our railways. Why? Because they voted free passes to them■elves. When will the workers learn to woto free passes to themselves? Echo answers, when? We boys of Huntly who create all the wealth of Huntly have in days past built and paid for out of our poverty one of the finest residences in the town. ft was built for our medical practitioner, and he dwells therein. We are •gain building, this time a hall, and it's going to be tho finest hall between lero and Auckland. We will pay for it out of our poverty. I'hc wealth we create goes largely into the coffers of those who own us, and also own the town. These people ere so wealthy that they can ask fabulous prices for small sections of land they own, and thus prevent the town from erecting a town hall. Wo boys obtained a section in a back street, and our hall is being reared thereon. The wealthy oibes, whoso wealth we have created, arc using such wealth to erect another hall in opposition to ours on a central site, whicli, too, will be built out of our poverty. Wealth assails poverty, and for awhile it will succeed j but beware, be warned, w© that wo.poor are more than you that arc wealthy; goad us not to fury, lest our numbers overwhelm thee. Tho local ambulance class committee is endeavoring to obtain a littor »r an ambulance waggon for the town. The effort is praiseworthy, but seeing that the need for such conveyances is mainly created by the nature of the local industry, surely tlioso who reap the wealth from such industry and never meet tho accidents incurred by Buch industry aro tho ones to provide those conveyances, and not allow it to be a burden on thoso who meet the accidents and create the wealth without possessing it. One of us gets emashed, two of us take the smashed one to the hospital, 20 miles away, tho rest of U3 pay tho two for their loss of time in taking tho smashed ono to hospital. Tho company pays nothing! Why is it so? A special general meeting of tho Wa-ikato Union took place on tho 25th nit. Mr. J. 15. King, a rcpiesentativo of tflio 1.W.W., was present, and gave an explanatory sketch and talk on tho principle of I.W.W. organisation. Conference business was transacted, including the election of our popular secretary, J. E. Duncan, as delegate thereto; but perhaps the most significant feature of tho meeting was tho resolution agreed to: "That tiio Union run a school commit-too ticket comprised of members only." Workers, where'er you a.ro, get hold of the schools. School committees have very , little power locally, but members of school committees elect tho members of owr education boards, and the boards control tho schools in Uieir district. To capture tho schools wo must capture the boards; to capture the boards we must ilo it through the school committees. Get a hustle onl Socialism and the 'Log" are almc.st Synonymous terms in Huntly, and the Socialists rally around it every Sunday night. Interesting addresses aro followed by more interesting questions, answers and enquiries, and thus tho Red is spread.—BßUlT.