AUCKLAND ACTIVITIES.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 64, 31 May 1912, Page 10

AUCKLAND ACTIVITIES.

■ravo, Waihi!—Crawlers and Timeservers—Some Straight Speaking A Cheering Record of Success. Bravo, Waihi I say all industrialists. Bravo, the general strike and simultaneous action! The coal miners of Xew Zealand are ■ipo for revolt; our comrades of Ausfiralia are reciprocating the slogan: "Down with scabbery and all worken. mit's." Waihi has decided that the insidious Union of Enginedrivers, engineered and tinanced by the capitalist class, must be destroyed. Would that our Auckland unionists would put their foot down on the slimy individuals who have formed a scab -onion from the General Laborers' lauk.s, and also the treacherous ones in the Tramway Union and among the watersidors. The man who conies to a union meeting and holds reactionary views, I welcome as one who can yet be convinced that industrial solidarity is the t«_y way ; again, I welcome a fighter whether he agrees with mc or not, whether he is in the majority or not. But the time-serving individual and trawler, who, because he can't have tho moon at the first asking, wants to form a new union and consequently •voids the union meetings, 1 heartily detest and despise. Now, a short while ago, some such individuals, who aro members of the Tramway Union, discovered after iivo Months that they had gained nothing Wit of the new agreement, and so they gave a notice of motion for the quarterly meeting, which insisted "that the trnion withdraw from tbe K.L. and reregister under the A. and C. Court." They gave no reasons at the Union meetings for the motion becoming law, tut told tho meeting in the morning that, if rejected, they would form another union. Sufficient to say, at the first meeting their motion was rejected try a vote of 3 to 1, and the evening meeting rejected it unanimously. Because they got a cold reception at the morning meeting, these unioii-wreek-«rs discreetly kept away at night, proving that they haven't the courage to ik? a vigorous minority, but that "they will bo mean and low enough to cause dissension in the camp by the (urination of a seal) union. IjC-t them form it. Why, Judge Sim is looking forward to the happy time when he can rub noses with his brothers, tfie tram way men, and give them » brand-new award, or, should I say, *n old one done up? A famous character on the cars ■rated one day that "all Socialists and ■tptators ought to be shot." The next day be had a smash-up, and tbe first people be brought his troubles to were the Socialists and agitators. Judge Sim refused to line the watersidors for their strike, as cancellation Hiad been oil'octed at the time, but in the ea«> of tho general laborers he fined the Union £(if) for the drainage strike. On on, you helots, and glorify tbe A. and C. Act. I am glad that Robert Somplo has Arrived from tho Big Island: ho will inspire confidence and enhance the feeling ot solidarity in the workers. Hurrah for the organised, intelligent, revolutionary proletariat! Hail Solidarity I We are moving onwards in Auckland towards better days. Our propaganda meetings are well attended, the collections are good, the literature sales arc good, and tho members enthusiastic. C)n Sunday. May 18, Comrade Scott Bennett dealt with "Tho Waihi Btrike," and gave for the first time to the people of Auckland the. real truth »f tin 1 fuels underlying the strike at Waihi, >>•) scurrilously suppressed by the lying capitalistic papers of Auckland. Tin- daily sup-ptvss made a great ■rffriig about Comrade Bennett arriving in a private brougham, giving the. impression that- a big, fat, well-dressed agitator bad come along in a lino equipage, jumped upon an improvised stand, addressed the poor, misguided, misled, ignorant strikers, thou immediately afterwards entered bis brougham and returned to his hotel. What wonderful imp res-ions come from the imaginative winds of the prostitutes of the niastere.asp. particularly from the paper which regales us every night wilh "The cause that- needs assistance, and the good ■fitat wo. can do." The press again has given a false impression, and practically wiid that all tho engine-drivers at Waihi had joined the, scab union, and published a lying report, about the number of persons wlw"> congregated in tho procession. Workers of New Zealand, when aie you going to have intelligence enough, solidarity enough, common hor.se m-iiso enough to i'matice and buy your own Working-class )>a|*-r. to pa) ronis-e ihe advertisers of that paper, ; ind help to build up the greatest factor in the present struggle, a militant woi kingclass pres-P When, 0 when r" Surely the blindest of you must know tint, I lie abominations known as the capitalist press are run by Hie capital!..(' elas.----m their own interests, and a blind man knows that t ho toiling cla -s and the spoiling class have nothing in common. Why has our wowser friend, David Goldie. such tin overwhelming admiration for (ho scab union, and why doeshe. with his fellow parasites, subscribe substantial donations to the. funds of the said scab union:' Surely such a fact makes it patent to us all. fellowworkers, that the scab union ia an eni-

idoyors' Union, engineered and financed jy a scheming, unscrupulous masterclass. Dining the eonlerence of the Federation, I hope that the \Vaihi trouble and the General Laborers' trouble in Auckland received the hillest inve_tigatioo. and that, a plan for a grand inilu.si.iial campaign was evolved, and will be placed before the militant workers of Alaorilaiid. Our street meetings of late have lieitn very good. In Kaiatigahape-roa-d on Saturday night. May 17, a largi crowd was attracted by Comrades Robertson. Barker and Saves. Alter tbe addresses were over, the largo crowd broke into interested knots, ami Socialists and opponents thrashed out the question until well after midnight Yes things are moving, .Socialism is the Now Spirit of the Age, and the penpic are beginning to understand the wonderful philosophy and slowly imbibing the economic truths from amongst the accumulated rubbish ot bourgeois economic fallacies. At-the wharf ou Sunday afternoon, ißth inst., Comrade Barker opened the proceedings and was followed by Comrade Fitzgerald, who attracted a large and interested crowd by a masterly analysis of labor power and its relation to the profits of the dominant class. He had a most attentive hearing, nnd a slight heckling from the Ancient Prohibitionist, who is now looked upon as a. parochial institution, and a neverending source of merriment to the workers of Auckland. Suffice to say that Kit/., speedily annihilated our fossilised friend and gave him his quietus. (Jomrade Fitzgerald has left for Foilding, where ho will fctay for a while, and I hope before long to see his valttahle services harnessed by tho National Executive. liOt mc .appeal before closing for more self-denial, more- solidarity, more fight than of yore. Ours is the fight, ours the gain-SPAN WIRE.