AUCKLAND ACTIVITIES.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 61, 10 May 1912, Page 10

AUCKLAND ACTIVITIES.

Parr's Return and the Lesson—The Tramway Union—Unity Schemers. Wo know at last where we> stand. C. J. Parr is still the chose-n of the master class of Auckland, and, incidentally, the chosen of at least f)0 per cent, of tho working-class of Auckland. 10,000 ■totes for Mr. Parr and 3.100 vote's for Hall Skelton—and tho cry is: "What Will the federation do now?" Better lar if we In •! run a working-class candidate. Siirelx the time has gone by lor running capitalist candidates •gainst each otherP The lesson is apparent that the unions of Auckland do Dot understand Industrial Unionism, Kid taking the vote as an index of their ■olidarity. the Gene'ial Laborers have ▼cry little sympathy to expect from those 32 unions who, after passing votes of censure upon the .Mayor, doliberately Voted him hack to eiflice'. Tlie Tramwavmen's Union is agitating •c withdrawing from the Federation, as * result of I he election, and it is mooted that certain fiery souls desire affiliation with \V. T. Mills' Unity Scheme. Now, I was one of the hardest workers fa connection with the Tramway Union joining the Federation, and I say canBidly that the Federation would be gainers if this particular Union got out tomorrow. 'I here are not 20 men in this Union uho understand father Socialism or Industrialism. They understand and manage' their own business so v.vll that the other day ihey couldn't raise a quorum to carry on the Union business Out of a membership of -ISO members. Solidarity, indeed I Hut consolation, my revolutionary brethren, when they ioin the Unify Scheme. tlu-y and their brother union, the Bible Students' Union, will wage the class war. In short, comrades, the Tramway Union don't know what they want, and they expect somebody to get it for them. If they managed the company's business half so badly as they manage their own, they would be sin-keel right away. And tbe cause is—What? When I tell you that the traffic, men average (55 bonus per week, and get one day off in fourteen, you will see that the oomSany is working a good game, working tiem hard and" long and paying them fairly well, of course. You can't talk of the class war to individuals who are Bp to tbe eyes working for the boss, day in and day out. They haven't got time to ihink--if they did, they would have found out that they were scabbing M a Union upon the workers of Auckland by working 60 hours a week. Let mc emphasise again the need for toe machinery of the I.W.W. being adopted by the Federation at their conference. Let us hope that Bob Semple links up our comrades in the Big Island, so that the time may come when we shall teach the autocracy ami the blue-bloods that the Federation is not O bluff, but a real live anil vital organisation, with effective, rapid, and thor-oughly-equipped machinery, ready to do »nd dare. I earnestly advise delegates to pay particular attention to Fellowr/orkor King, who represents the Auckland General Laboivrs' Union. Tho luestion re the Laborers' Union and the i. and C. Court nnid receive full and Biattuv consideration, for something must be done. The Unity Campamn i* progressing Tory slowly and painfully in Auckland, notwithstanding the presence of those, half-pic opportunists, Veitch and Robertson, who seem to bo in a painful hurry to adjure nis all tei "Go slow; go •low." Tim Unify Campaigners don't agree upon what they want, but they are a "-reed unon how to get it. And •■brother" W. T. Wills will stay on, heaven he 1 hanked, to "do" things. We need moro self-sacrifice in Aueklanel, move vim and oner"v—-w<* have got lackadaisical elect iotiih's, etc. I suggest, to the Socialist Party that all unfinani'ial members be not allowed at business meeting';, and that any member three months in arrears be deleted from the benefit eif membership, -unless valid excuse offers. The least members could do is tei renew their con-tributions.-SPAN WIRE.