III.—THE FEDERATION OF LABOR.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 75, 16 August 1912, Page 5

III.— THE FEDERATION OF LABOR.

The strike being on, the lock-ott boing on, the conduct of both automatically passed into tho hands of tho New Zealand Federation of Labor —registered under the Trades Union Act — and the Federation immediately issmd a manifesto to the workers of tho Dominion, asking for moral and financial support. Both the unions affected are members of the Federation, and in accord with constitution and rules, were both committed to Federation government and administration. All-round Attack. In the fierce publicity given to strike and lock-out, the Federation of Labor was bitterly assailed from the outse*, and hostility to it and hatred of it were utilised to damn up hill and down the miners' ense and cause, regardless of the merits of strike and lock-out, and with a vindictiveness and lying probably unparalleled in the industrial history of the Dominion. The Employers' Association; and the press of, by, and for Capitalism—and the institutional satellites of both —led tho onslaught. And in this malicious crusade the United Labor Party was persuaded to join. The. law of the land was also pressed into the slanderous service.

Thus, the Federation of Labor was now fighting directly the Gold-mine Owners' Association (acting for Waihi and Reefton), and secondly the Employers' Federation, the. Press, the Law, the United Labor Party and the secessionists.

It is necessary that, we devote parti-'CO-ra-P—attention to these opponents.

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