MILWAUKEE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 62, 17 May 1912, Page 4

MILWAUKEE.

"Dominion" on Milwaukoo: "Ernest Soidol, Socialist Mayor, defeated ly 13,117 to 30,200. Tho ordinary political pai+ios sank tlu'ir difforencee and united against the Socialists." Hurrah! and apain hurrah! When w© get tlm capitalists into ono cannp and coaso to pretend there ie any division, we shall soon get a united work-ing-class—and then If

As is usual in those cases, parents o<lll generally afford to keep their sons at college or high seliool until they are 10, J7, .Irt, 1«, or 20 years of age". The workers' sons at those ayes would be in tJieir lirstj second, third and Fourth ycais of apprenticeship and engaged at their daily work. During those years the boys at i:he colleges and high schools would be dom<,; their drill in the daylight, tliwi school syllabus or time-table being arralisted to meet the requirements ol tha "Defence-" Act. The sous ol the workers, on the other hand, besides their daily eight hour* , work in shop, foundry, factory, or what not (and mueli of it of laborious nature), are exprcu-d to do their drill at night and attend their night classes for technical instruction into the bargain. Looks "democratic," doesn't it! - ' And this is not all. The cadet corps of the "privilogru* 1 class go into camp at their own convenient season, and are supplied wit.T* ;:11 the attention, comforts, and coii\eiiiences that money, affluence, and influence can procure. Th-r> sons oi the common people are asked to go into camp at all inconvenient limes, lose their wages and sometimes their work whilst there, and havo to be content witli whatever apology for camp equipment may be supplied by the Government. It's all what we get under "demooracy." And to finish up., the same- sons of the "privileged" class have ail th« advantages ol securing the "soft jobs- ,,- in officers' commissions, whilst the workers' sons must be eonlrnr with 4s. per day and Is. (3d. per day for widows' pensions. Way. Jfow many sons of the workers are attending the military training college at Duiitloon ? Mow many "priviIcod" sons have been jailed under the/ Defence Act? Workers, wake np! The "Defence" Act is openly eucour- , aging the breeding of a distinct military caste. The "privileged" class (many of them exempt from training) know this, and that is why they are so keen on the establishment of what they call the "Territorials," but what we call compulsory training or conscription. See "the point! . It will give then* constant billets. Then don't encourage conscription , . Let the ''privileged" elnss—th# class that clamors for the system mostr— train their own sons and fight their own battles. All the training and all the fighting will never he of any vi« to the- workers.