NO CLASS WAR.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 70, 12 July 1912, Page 4

NO CLASS WAR.

I wonder sometimes if they ever read. They can scarcely pretend to think. The foregoing is written for tho special benefit of those superior persons who say "there is no class war," and they themselves are not class-conscious. Let all such read the application of the Waihi Gold Mining Co.'s for six months' protection in the Warden's Court. Tho Warden is most certainly class-conscious aaid showed his class bias. "It was ridiculous to think the companies could have complied with tho demands of the union." Why ridiculous, Mr. Warden? There wero 1600 men on one sido and only 25 on the other. If tho mining companies, backed by the Employers' Federation, had not wanted trouble, at Waibi, they would at on*}© ha,vo told tb.9 25 to stop their nonsense and- cjear out. They, would havo dono this, but ths masters wanted a strike.

Ivet every tradesman, every workman, every citizen, remember that it was tho masters who wanted a strike at Waihi. The masters could have prevented it if they had wished to. The Warden has not wit enough to see that; it is time for a new warden.