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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 74, 9 August 1912, Page 5

CjYDNEY "Bulletin" of, July 25 refers to the Pederation of Labor as "the red-rag, anti-defence, to Hellwit h-agreements party," and justifies the bashing by quoting the ravings of the dishevelled mad-dog "Inangahua Times." In the now general knowledge of tho facts it is amusing te find that tho chief Federation sin consists in that "two thousand men take the bread out of an innocent girl's mouth (a musichall pianist at Waihi)." .Seeing that the "innocent girl" is a married woman whose husbaud kept at work when the Others struck, and is a well-paid employee of the mining company, and that the said "innocent girl" had cut rates and done a man out of his piano-playing job, the "Bulletin" may grasp why everybody is laughing at its consistent bungling re Waihi.

AS narrated by "Ben Adhem" in the "*" ibeal paper, Professor C Freeth had the pleasure of introducing Editor W. T. Mills to a Petone audience the other Friday evening. Mr. Mills took the field on Unity Party, and we are informed that "there havo been few meetings held in Petone from which the audience returned home so happy. It was a good entertainment." Dropping into "po'try" the chronicle.-- m tfie "Chronicle" gives the sum total:-— Yankee Doodle is my name, Try roy Sugar Candy 1 When the great Mills-onium comes, We'll have champagne and shandy! Mills' pills will cure all ills, Shout it frojm each steeple ; Don't ask why, but Buy, Buy, Buy ■ Blue pills for yellow people! (They make you green.)

p'OERCIONIST WADE has been talking in Sydney, and among tho things ho was able to say —that is, to say bruthfully, for Mr. Wade doesn't always speak tho truth—-were these: "The Government had promised to repeal the Wado Industrial Act (Coercion Act). . . Yet tho very foundation and framework of the new measure was .based -on the principle of the Wade Act. . . . The Wade Government had been accused of leg-ironing and coercion, yet the Labor Government's new Industrial Arbitration Act provided that tbe man who struck without warning could be imprisoned for six months, and when, he went back to work a fine could be imposed upon him." And the marvellous legironer argued that his coercion must necessarily bo right because McGowen and Co were also coercionists, while tho truth of the matter is that both Wado and Co. and McGowen and Co. are convicted of being the brutally unscrupulous political instruments of the master-class.

by daily papers and stimulated by them, a section of tho Wellington Watersiders in antagonism to the Federation of Labor has been strenuously .endeavoring to weaken the waterside allegiance to the Federation. The campaign concentrated in an effort to remove G. G. Farland from the secretaryship, Farland being known as an able and enthusiastic Federatipnist. It was hoped that .his defeat would be regarded as a vote of want of .confidence in the F.L. So, an anti-Fed. ticket was nominated, and the same chronicled in tl»e "Evening Post" in a misleading way and with these words as a bait to voters: "It is understood that the above nominees were opposed to the union joining the Federation of Labor." The election came on, and Farland had to contest a second ballot, but has emerged triumphant, a result upon which-the union and the secretary are to be congratulated. We hold to the opinion that the watersiders aro temperamentally Federationists, and -will yet be- one of the Federation's strongest supports. We must get in among them more.

— *— rpHE writer of the "Labor Column" in the "Lyttelton Times" opens up thus in a recent contribution: "Everywhere to-day the fact is .recognised that the political fight of the future lies between Labor on the one hand and all its, opponents, Liberals, Conservatives and revolutionaries, grouped .together on the other." We, too, have a vision of the political fight of the future, but the picture is somewhat different to that drawn by the Christchurch scribe. On the one hand, it is true, is Labor, but it is militant Labor, class-conscious Labor—-revolu-tionary Labor—-Labor with a definite purpose in politics, and that the institution of collective ownership for the common weal of the means whereby men live. On the other hand will be marshalled Labor's opponents— Liberals, Conservatives, and Lib.-Lab-bers. Under its present constitution, the so-called United Labor Party can never be a homogeneous whole. Its leaders are fishing for peoplo with all sorts and conditions of political proclivities and perversities, for people with principles and people with no principles whatever. They are baiting their books and casting their nets to catch anything and everything that swims in tho sea of political idea and endeavor; and therefore the .party can never be a cohesive body, and will never be able to attain any degree of power because of the constant defections that will take place-to the opposing side whenever the party tries to make a step forward in the march of progress—-that is, df it is ever spurred to "got a move on" by its most advanced -members. Backslidings and breakaways will besmirch its-career (if it ever has one) to a far greater extent than they blacken the history of the Labor Party in some of tho Australian States, in which, it must be noted, the Labor Party has built itself up from its own class, from the ranks of tho workers, and has made at no time any special effort to lure Liberal, charm Conservative, or -entice any other brand of played-out politician into the fold. "D.G.'s" picture is out of perspective.