Preamble.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 73, 2 August 1912, Page 10

Preamble.

We hold that all men are created to be free, and should have equal access jMid opportunity to the enjoyment of »11 benefit!! to be derived from their exertions in dealing with the natural resources of the earth, and that free Kcess and equal opportunity thereto ire absolutely necessary to man's existence, and tho upward progress of the human race. Through tho rapid gathering of wealth and tho centreing of the management of industries into fbwer and fewer hands, Trado3 Unions are unable to copo with the ever-grow-ing power of the employing class, bee&use Trades Unions foster a state of things which allows one set of workera to be pitted against another set of workers, thereby helping fo defeat one another in wage wars. These conditions can be clia-nged ajul the interests of the working; cln.se upheld only by aja. organisation formed in such a way that if the necessity arises all its members ehull make an injury to one an injury to all. Therefore wo deem it necessary to organise and maintain tho New Zealand Federation of Labor. Hmongst our lawful purposes we declaro ptore (.-specially our obieots to bo: — RULE I.—OBJECTS. Clause ]. —To create and maintain a fund fur eucii in tarcnu"

with and promotive of the object* oi thin Federation, as nhail approve theru•eJvea to the Exoeutiv* Committee thereof.

'C'liiuse i.'.— To improve the conditions and protect th« intciosle ot the m«?iobere of the Federation by increasing the proportionate share of the wealtli of the workers, shortening the hour* ol labor, and endeavouring to eduoat* fvi the complete abolition of the preswit wage system, and the substitution ol the lomnion ownership of the means ol production. Clause 3.- To eer.uw employment of our mom ben in prt'W'rvin , * to nontinioiiitils ; to lnaintaiii a spirit of fraLernal sympathy with the woikerg of this and other countries by a-nsieting them when necessary. Clause 4.—To use our united efforts to discourage the contract labor and bonus system, and as soon as possible to abolish these, believing the said systems to be detrimental to the beet interests of organised labor. Clause s.—To enable and provide for the Federation to own, publish, and control a weekly newspaper. Clause 6. —To ensure to members who are proved to have been unjustly treated the support of the Federation.