HUNTLY HOWLS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 60, 3 May 1912, Page 10

HUNTLY HOWLS.

gtrifc*-*-—wine's v<<>M—*'•<-• I st r ii,, nrtr » H nitty — Co-operation — Mln'-frr? Class-Male. The iv!l,l wind howls down tbe rive-. All Naiiire seems in revolt: Fln-di comes the fin re of Ihrhtni'iv-; In the wako of a thunderbolt.

How grandly majestic is a -turni as it rages in a fury of wind and ram ; destruction seems to be its mission, and as the debris or wreckage lien strewn around we imagine, that destruction is its only mission; we fail to note that the storm-swept zone is re invigorated and the. atmosphere recharged with a purer, life-giving ether for the many, even if a few havo succumbed to the elements. Sony» small souls—stomach souls —see nothing but dent-ruction and despair in an industrial storm or ntrike. and descant on the wreckage of homos and appetites occasioned by a strike, forgetting it has lessons to teach. _es, strikes seem to be rilled with a mission of destruction, and they do destroy but they give clearer vision when the storm has subsided ; the industrial atmosphere is clarified : the worko/r is 10----invigomtcd after tlie struggle, even though enfeebled by the storm, and lessons are learnt that no other teacher couW* toach. The lesson of the Black strike in the Old Country has taught ns all the necessity of organising for international Industrial Unionism, and the boys of Huntly have their coats off in an' effort to attain that object, and off they must remain until our object wo attain. Five years ago the boys of Huntly issued their famous circular calling on all unions to consider a workern' federation.' To-day that Federation is a part of the industrial organisation of this Dominion. Again to-d.-iy we of Huntlv are howling with 110 uncertain voice for yet sounder and more scientific industrial nr""inidation, than we have hitherto had within these shores. Since hist notes, J. P. King, a representative of the 1.W.W., has been with us. and delivered three addresses from the "Log." The interest aroused was intense. He is billed to revisit us on the 17th and 18th inst. King, whoever he is, wherever he hails from, certainly has a message and knows how to deliver it,, and it will pay us to heed it. Capitalism is international. Well that's nothing new; but note how they hang together, how identical are their interests. The secretary of tho Taupiri Coal Company wrote to an English capitalist paper during the currency of the past strike, making a statement that too minimum wage has failed in operation at Huntly, N.Z., and cites Judge. Sim's clauses tagged on to our present award as conclusive evidence, lie omits to state that the men of Huntly are b.'ing paid fid. per day extra under the present award for deficient places, and are better off than they were under the minim-urn wage. Put that would frustrate his object, which was to cast discredit upon the demands of our fellows in tlie Ok' Land for a minimum wa--e for abnormal conditions or deficient places—a concession wo possess and have retained.ever since it was conceded. We ,!on : t obJM-t to -Mr. Fotheringliam entering the arena on behalf of the class iie Ik longs. 10, but: we do say this, "i'lay the gv.me; side-step and kidney punch if you wish—wo realise the fight is nil. we ask no quarter, we give none, but v.c do demand the rules bo adhered to ; respect the belt line." The liuntly Co-operative Society, Ltd.. are about to start business, and have built, a small store to commence with. Certain of the community ridicitl • 1:1:1.1 sneer at the effort. "Ho laughs best, who laughs last." We must get hi-"-;,-, or bust. Some arc big, and can't get, bigger, so must bust. One of the three bakers has left the town, leaving two. Dame Rumor has it that the other two are paying so much per week to keep the vacant Ink cry empty and thus avoid further oorepe' ;!.!•, n. ion is the sanest method of business, undoubtedly, but such ii (o-k-ey tricks as subsidising a, (inn to remain inoperative have reached a brer.k.iue-point in the" town, and s-n-i)i-« of i!p> insanity which presages destruction. A ruining class is being formed in tlie town for all who wish to apply themselves to the study of coal mining, 'there's only one thing in the world wo can't, get too much of—that's education. If it lies around everywhere for the picking up, pick it up wlrcre and '-hen you can, not so much to bo able to push your feet in another's face to climb a! 'ye him in the so-called social s'Mi- 1 , but to be n f rervieo to your ehm- He who lifts himself may ll't his class: he who degrades himself must <l"\ ■'■};' his class. '1'!,,. i,.-|l .■oeir-'iil'-o is recommending a build-up; fund lew at tlie nest Union n-of ' im, and it will lie answe-vd by tli, hov< The call to the workers all tin-, -~/ev d,)»'|, j|;-i S p.-,,n a call to fiulTer. an I we workers of necessity br.ve had to answer it, yea, suffer that some mi:rht surfeit; having answered the call we know bow to suffer. Some day -if may be near or distant—tlie \vor!:r-fs wn' riii.r the call io suffer around the world. It will In- a call to suffer that all may have sufficient nnd th.it suffering may be o\ i r f'-.r evi-r. ''Workers of the woild, iinit'.-"—-the call may herald _onn.—RltHlT.