Strike and Lock-out.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 75, 16 August 1912, Page 1

Strike and Lock-out.

News and Views.

Slug it, everybody: Glory, -lory, hallelujah' Gloi), hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! The strike is uiarching on. "Spiinwire" writes from Auckland: "The Carters' Union hore have been asleep, and whilst asleep they donated £G0 to the strike fund, passed a terriiie resolution, and tilien —woke up. As Judge Sim is going to be kind to them they won't want tlie Federation now, and they can't spare that £00. Keep it, carters, and buy v few books on industrial unionism, and learn how to keep awake and do your own -thinking." **■ • » Despite the protracted negotiations between the Wellington, Auckland and .Sydney Trades Council—-and the equal disowument of each—the secretary of the Federation of Labor is in constant receipt of monetary aid from Australian unions for the strike and lock-out fund. Mr. Glover informs us that the following amounts reached him last week: Northern District Miners' Association (N.S.W.), £3-52; Coal Lumpers' Union, Sydney, £100; Gormanston (Tasmania) miners, £-35; Wharf Laborers' Union, Sydney, £30; United Labor Protection Society (N.8.W.), £20; _«? Mountain branch A.M.A., £10—o total of £567. » * * Sen-pie is doing the West Coast and Parry and Fraser the Auckland district. Howard has been at Wailii. » * * Farland, Glover, and Ross addressed a meeting in Wellington on Sunday night, when a resolution similar to the cno printed from Christenurch was carried. * * * .. $*pd-_v Lubot...Coiwid-l-, after a long discussion, adopted by 61 votes to ."S8 the executive committee's recommendation that no support be given to the "Wnibi strikers, as the dispute is not with the employers, but against the rights of the engine-drivers and firemen- A narrow squeeze. - * • Owing to serious difference between the staff and the manager, the whole of the employees of the "Northern Advocate," Whangarei, struck; consequently there was no issue of the paper on August G. Publication was continued next day, as the manager accepted the terms of the ultiimatum submitted by the staff. Now, if tho foolish strikers had only used the ballot instead of the strike, how much better off they would have been. EhP » • <• Webb writae optimistically from Australia. c - * A miner who once worked at Millerton but is now following other toil in Wellington calls regularly with five bob for the fund. » * If your union votes cash for strike and lock-out see that it is sent in; if the amounti is not acknowledged in the statement it has not been received. * * ).- At date of printing this number Secretary Gkwer has received a total of £l0,(-0 for the strike and lock-out fund. Ten weeks ago the enemy said the strike was a failure and the lockout a debacle. "W. T. Mills said: "The strikers are certain to be beaten." Tho papers and the mouthers are not so sure nor so cocky to-day. *•- * * Lord Devonport, chairman o! the Port of London authority and the per-

has not.

The Campaign for Wor-kingclass Triumph.

son who thinks that 18s. per week is art ample income on which to rear a family, seems to be the type of man who serves a great purpose in lite witlreut meaning it, says the Sydney "Worker." He has been the cause of widespread industrial stagnation and indescribable misery, and liis callous ukases have struck horror into the hearts of humane and sensitive onlookers. It takes gilded brutes like Devonport to stir the national conscience and show how real is the suffering and sacrifice of the penurious and underpaid worker. When the coal workers of Rotterdam went on strike for higher wages in May, hundreds of blacklegs were imported from Germany to take their places. In spite of this, the men won handsomely. It is worthy of note that the British transport workers, notwithstanding their own looming trouble, lent ready assistance to their Dutch brethren. The Labor movement is achieving the poet's dream of a "federation of the world."—fl. E. Boote, in Sydney "Worker." The "Patternmakers' Journal" particularises some of the ftemen every union has:— A calamity howler. Half-a-dozen bosses' men. One or two "stool pigeone." A dozen or more foremen out for the interests of their bosses. A fellow with a disease called wowseritis. An executive board which is always trying to find out how its ijews "leaks." A bunch that's sore on the organiser, composed of men Jin beat for office. * "* * And a whole lot of good fellows who stay away from union meetings and let the union go to h—t-U.

The North Island Labor journal (not The Worker) which concludes its leading article on the industrial problem with the straight-out advertisement that it." will supply the sheer lack of knowledge on the subject it rashly attributes to its readers "for ss. a year, post free," doesn't want to blush unseen or be accused of mock modesty 1 — Christchurch "Evening News."

Mr. Laracy wishes us to point out that the statement he made re the duration of the Federation's fight was somewhat differently telegraphed to Christchurch and other centres. What he said Was: "The Federation is fully able to carry on the strike for another two or three months at least and longer, if need be." The last few words were dropped in transmission. The orN ginal statement appeared in our columns, and was a complete endorsement of the actions of the men of Waihi and Reefton —and this has been Mr. Laracy's position from the commencement.

Small wonder can attach to the marvellous growth of the N.Z.F.L. We have known Ross, met Semple, and this week it was our pleasure to meet Hickey en route for the nativeborn, logical and tenacious. Speed the day when we here in Victoria can say we have such an active trio working for (Socialism. — Melbourne "Socialist."

« •" * Industrial organisation ie the thing to the sweaters sweat. * * • AMERICAN DEFINITION OF A SCAB. After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad and the vampire, He had some awful "substance" left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water-sogged brain and a combination backbone made of jelly and glue. Where other people have their hearts he carries a tumor of rotten principles. When the scab comes down the street honest men turn their backs, the angels weep t-ears in Heaven and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man lias a right to scab as long as there is a pool of water deep enough to drown his body in, or a rope long enough to hang his carcase with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a scab, for, after betraying his Master, he had enough character to hang himself, and a scab