Waihi Children.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 75, 16 August 1912, Page 2

Waihi Children.

OFFERS TO TAKE CARE OF THEM. TWO LETTERS. Sir, —Recognising there must be much dist-Tesa amongst the miners of Waihi on account of the ridiculous action of the 15 ex-members of the Federation who desired to form a reactionary union, I shall, as a mother, be pleased to help another mother in a practical way. My suggestion is that all mothers in sympathy with the strikers take one or two children for a month, thereby helping the strikers materially and at the same time giving the Children a happy holiday. I am prepared to take one for a month —age, over three years and under eleven years. How many are willing to do the same? Plenty, I'm sure. Now, mothers, here's your chance for a blow at wage-slavery and the weak-kneed action of our anti-Labor anti-Socialist organisation, the Trades and Labor Council. —I am, etc., Well. WIFE OF UNIONIST. Sir, —The great textile strike at Lawrence, Mass., U.S.A., was won under the auspices of the 1.W.W., and they adopted a new and novel method —the sympathisers in other cities and towns took the strike children into their homes. Can we here in New Zealand not do the same? If the Socialists nnd Fodoratinnists in tihe Nort'i Islnnd tool- the Waihi strikers' children and looked after them the strikers and their wives could hold out ever so much longer. The married sympathisers could take a child each and the we single men could v<.y the board for some. The cost would not be severe on anyone., and the strikers could stick out for their rights until the end. What do the Waihi comrades think of ithis suggestion.—Yours, etc., Well. 0. MIEDEMA.