The Auckland View.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 71, 19 July 1912, Page 10

The Auckland View.

CONGRATULATIONS AND CENSURES.

Bravo, tho Barrier miners! £500 and a levy for the fight at Reefton and Waihi is indeed encouraging, and shows us that the miners of Australia aro as militant and self-sacrificing as their comrades of New Zealand..

It stands out in marked contrast to tho cowardly, treacherous attitude of the United Labor Party and tho contemptible attitude of the billet-hunting autocratic Trades and Labor (God help labor) Council in Wellington, who have turned "dog" upon their fellow-work-ers. Well may tie say, "How long, 0 Lord, how long?"

To make uso of a deliberate falsehood to prevent funds coming in, by Baying that tho Waihi light is a. light between workers, is a trick dirty enough in all conscience for the capitalist pTOSS to monopolise, but by leaders ol an alleged Labor organisation is aa criminal as it is damnable.

Hail the day when the scales fall from the eyes of the workers, when. they will realise their class interests too well to bced the squealing and lying of the traitorous, abominable crew who parade in Labor's sweet name and pander to their masters and the class who *ob and rule. Their names will go down to posterity and will stink in the nostrils of tho militants of the world, a<? tbesft who ratted on their class in tha

hour of danger, beitiuse thoy bad a slight disagreement as to tactics. Men of Kcoflon, let mc congratulate you upon slapping that £-!j back '« lieunion who thought you wei-e wanting charity. Oh. lor men of jour -tamp m the unions to-day I A secret boys-—the miners are going to win. The Y\w cant mislead our miner comrades of the Mig

Island. Keep the money pouring in, unions,: and branches ol the Socialist Party. The Waihi fight can bo won with money—-it in necessary; tho Kilidarity is there—a triumphant and a glorious truti.

The mineowners like scabs —when useful. The mineowners love their Waihi mine all the time. Do you think they mean it when they say they «ill sacrifice it in order to win out against the men? Don't bclicvo it, cy comrades : tlio> Waihi shares aren't falling : they still stand at 365. and 375. Tiiey say the water won't troublo thorn—won't it? It isn't well timbered, you know. :

The question is. workers —Aro you great enough, solid enough, manly enough to send money enough to buy food enough for the solid enough miners of Waihi and Reefton F Let us make a determination, a class-conscious determination, to do it for 12 months.

Can the old mine last 12 months, Mr. Rhodes, eh? Do the London directors favor the sacrificing of the mine, Mr. Rhodes, ehr 1 Isn't it about the only pie they havo a finger in in New Zealand, Mr. Rhodes, eh? The Socialist Party's collections have nearly reached £30 in Auckland. Hurrah for Socialism!

There wero four big meetings at the wharf on Sunday afternoon week around the Socialists, tho 1.W.W., the Ancient Prohibitionist, and tho Adult School. The Socialists included Corns. Robertson (chairman), Barker, Jackson and our old warrior of Wellington fame, Com. Dowdall. Our last-named comrade roused the echoes around the wharf in a very effective manner, nnd gathered an enormous crowd by his sarcasm a.nd his apt illustrations.

Com. Jackson, a newly-arrived nr'inber of the 8.5.P., also spoke eery effectively upon his experiences as a strike committeeman during the transport strike in Liverpool. He got -jo.te an ovation on ecrcluding.

In the evening il. Scott Bennett de livered oriotlicr excellent lecture on "Wowserism and Economics," to a largo and appreciative audience, while Com. Savage actiid effectively as chairman.

Send in the greenbacks, workers, for Waihi, Reefton and Solidarity. For the Day.—SPANWIRE.