Conference Week.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 58, 19 April 1912, Page 8

Conference Week.

We are not with those who despise a working-class gathering jutt because '. they dislike tho composition or liewi noint of thai gathering. To us tho tact that a, gathering is a workingclass gallic-Ens entitles the same to respect and .couEidoia.tion. Thus, to us, conference week in Wellington was a notable week if only tistv E ' dieatcd and illusEtiWl a t-ivit-y r oiig the n others. AeiEEv is beater than apathy, even tho-vii Ihe rrliviiy be wrongly-based. Ep-.it entirely from their kvEoiEa! or political cllogwuce, it muE- be uga;d-i ;v n good and ~ in dckE'roEon m.d >lv\ -making. Wo j cannot have E;y u.nch of Eton.-'/.- ;>i?d j i oi' energy in winkers' aEavs and un-- , ii. :i ali Ereti instance:, cEv.w and i v. Ide -iwakcucfis arc ever io in- eE-vm- ' cd. 'i'h'c- iv vt fault and the ~orE folly } i'iiio:."!- I-a, EEeE vr i-viple v ij-diner- j > tulivu. Vke v-o.id'ha.e b-:vv end! ■. eemt o' any s - it is eevEn to E.o v' ie i ! 'i.e.). e'e, ■■■ L- o, i.- • ::,.': • f i" '.. | j tiny our Eedaiieii '-■" couf: . ' •'. ■■e'.-t i i win no: Lie Eundeislood. E /.a.-; :E j big we ~ a uiiofi/' r/ook, >i, w\ t-r v.oiE.y ; I of iiraiso and honor. 'In eve Em. .»- ---j meets of Eabor cro tin -vkvatd an.il j visible sign of the grow g in'.eiii vino j aiE tspirations of tJ't- wuE.crs. and out i of such Parliaments we suall se-e alti- | male'y emerge the Netv Oroov upon ! the rains oi ,vage-slavery. This iulmis- : vo.':, this cont-f-iitioi 1 ; lived inE cay ; -.villi ii ko endorsenvnt of conference i iuoce-etkiigs, wir'ch is soiiiefbiEg apart. ; to be judged by E:o jeerii-s c d-emcEs i , of t! case. 'In the mam, we wish that j ! a gicaE'r militancy and a higher under- i j standing had characterised conference I 1 week-— that the sikxWias a...1 .ho deads |

bad made tar determined linking-up with tho proclaimed and graspod purI poao of sw-eping away exploitation and I instituting production for use with all that it implies in tlio way of workir.g(la.s.s bet k-nneut. To descend from the general to tho particular, we may first remark that it it 100 early yet to wisely fix the place of ei.uE'rea-■> week in the scheme- of filings, ,vi - .i next may say that the adaption, of tho Unity proposals by ! those who ii -d met to adopt them gives j defiidU, shape to tho United Labor | I'arty, and therefore fills the future with deep interest. We are inclined ty think that the new party will make Eio ii.i.tia. l , of tho Australian Labor i movement and become dangerously and dni'.'-E exE-iEvely political. It- must never be tErgotteu f.hafc political success is one thing and industrial organisation quite, another thing. Political success does r.ot necessarily mean better oi'ganisation, and may mean war.;-}, Tlie United Labor Party has adopted. an objective of admirable properties aid nivi'o praportious a.ad to tlie cxI '.y :y r.-.aa' the objecEve <E -'.-ires for En- | Socialist plan and aim we like it and extol it. VE> Ahull age.Ey watch and j wait t< 3->}i what share tbo objective gets in the- advocacy ;■. d doings of ihe 1.L.P.; meanwhile we congratulate tho:,j responsible upon the success of their efforts in adcring tho objective fo a less anEjigious declaration for socialisaEor?.. Touching E-;e programme of ib" party as express.-,.' ;;. tho fighting planks of the pl_tEi;;r: v.v a;e in uccord with the j proposed v.vE'.ijiou of luitioua'isaEon and dcmocC-.'.-.-y Eiurein outlined, but deem it v.'Eo to remind our friends that noitlr- ii!.c;e;i..?d lititionalEiaiion nor iiiicreasod damai-iacy E-atid for economic ! gams 'o the E>.k\r: nor for giving to the tellers full product of their labor. If.j-.v iV.r Eir- U..E.P. will opera' in E:e :i.a;.:--\ spirit and prE iplcs of '.■en. .Es E,< .E- oEjcEuiiabE' Eatliies •>f E).' Ji:: r..y .E-E-a.o Eicy lie largely in -( ". ebsarptani E' Liheralisni and in :i d • 'a..,; -..---.E. -idi.,:;., and baiu. Ef I w) .. mo:j an a. !■• -.'.'ii] be a'E tJ. -~-,.. ti.iukj UM E-.o i-:i:L:-a.E - .ii.r.ii;w;i am.' anfi-com.a-Ee- ' .--I-.,/ .... •■ •':-.(),. i;:.iE ! J'-ij E; has It-j f.a '•'Eii- E:-> : ••ntioii uf arliit: Eon pu:'.- /.',:■; ii • '-~<'.-.-,,'d'Ey, iEr you cannot have VEb. -Eriko a"d nrbif ration, r-ml an.'.i'.-iiy you do not require arbitration if V'iu 'cava sound organisation. That v,\- web'onto t-iio piuEimcia of conscE'dEn gof.j without sayuig, and wo are siii>v bep'.-ful of a combined and determined campaign in behalf of ,011----scripfion's suppression. Conscription I nowhere has helped ihe workers: every '■ here it has injured them. The conference of t(bo Socialist Party gives prjuiEe of fine and emancipatory miiiiU. (a);»fereii.«j licked party rules inte order. revised and perfected party

I machinery, decided to incroaso its or- | Kai;iser.s, and threw overboard it.s pivj- | Ui-'iiiiini' ol' palliativ-'S. ' We voLe that, both Labor I'arty and [ Socialist I'arty mutated their pledgc-i, laud I hat, neither h''i)ia>lErtli will bnvo I liiiie nor place for uiiatExih.-d P.irliaii"M.'i ary I'fpreaciifc.itii',-.',-). Messrs. V'-'luh and ll.ibci fsou, M.P.'s, step ii:!o die Labor I'arty. All tboiie and others not referred to, have sotno relationship to the I'oribcoidiiifj; of the l'Vd'■iation of Labor, v,<rin whieli ;dl eye;} 1 :>.ie now rcnE'<xl. Tlie l'Ed,--i-.itioii iias i-a de-Ed - * ii|>on i'U | f.Uuie iiiduErial form, and upon itd f'Eure poliEEa! po'iEy, and in counec-E-'-'Ui willi Eie lai.ter whoUier it will bo in iwdf bo:h iiiduEEa! and parliamentary or accept, the SE>.'iali:E Party as its ;»>liii'-nl c-;pre.s.sion. Of '.ill the eoiiE'reiH",-;, thci key one is tat; on" a few weeks away.