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

i _ | In Our Opinion j J4-A*^WA#_yW / -%*A*^V-*^^ "DOTS, you are showing them how to fight—showing them how to pay. Keep it going. •''" ■ ♦ • ■ "O/'ELL done, John Payne, M.P.! Your letter to Sydney Council was unexpected and therefore the more appreciated. •- - 4" ■■ "OELATJVE to tho increasing Defence Act prosecutions, some of us wane to know why magistrates, politicians, and clergymen should be exempted from defending THEIR country? Can the workers give tho answer? __*__. COMMISSIONER HALLY'S rejoinder to Mr. Parry on conditions at Waihi in lid way detracted from the strength of Parry's sledge-hammer reply to the Commissioner's alarmist deliverance, wi-ile Parry's further rejoinder left Hally without a leg to stand on. —,— » ..- . CONGRATULATIONS from a n centres are pouring in upon improved and enlarged Woekek. The toilers are gripping the paper's worth and weight. Give it a doubled circulation and it will conquer Now Zealand. „—o CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL, the clever American, begins his neiv book, "The Passing Show of Capitalism," as follows: "The only thing in rha world that is worth bothering about, is th© advancement of Socialism. It j includes everything that can be named j or imagined as a worthy object of life." --■■» •♦ —*—— ©EDITION 1 It is yelled in every industrial upheaval. As to the present charge, somebody travels to "W _ihi, hear* King, ,/ies to Christchurch, and is interviewed, no name given. On the strength of this, Massey takes action. In "Ben Hur" we read: "Romans, it should be remembered, were at no time such lovers of the law and its forms as in the ages of their dc.\.." ■.■■.»■♦ ■ A PRESS ASSOCIATION telegram from Cisborno states that tho Poverty Bay General Laborers' Union has d*cided to secede from'the East Coast Trades and Labor Council. This item didn't get any big headlines as to "Beginning of the End —Another Blow to tho Trades Councils." The. particular secession is from a council which "turned down" in insulting terms the overtures of the Federation of Labor. And as the truth is grasped, the secessions from the Trades Councils will be as the Israelites' departure out of Egypt. f .— MYERS, as predicted, has lost his tail-feathers, and his crow is no longer heard from the militarists' dung-hill. All his dire j threats of "vindicating tho law," and of playing havoc generally amongst defaulters have come to naught! It is -W-¥*ekti x _v__ _re prgs?mriioMer s oTThe'' / "honor" (?) of being the "head" ('l) of the Boy-hunting, Boy-jailing Scheme will Roon be in the same forry plight. Keep the fight going. The bully never did survive long in a just cause. Thov are nob men who prosecute tho boys .nd tshey deserve t>o sympathy. tS7"HAT would bo a huge j6ke were it not so utterly damnable (this is net swearing—-it is simply good English) has just come to our notice. French daily papers to Land contain < articles with scare headlines—"The Australian Menace—Australia Arming —New Caledonia in Danger" (!) The moral drawn is the same in each case, viz., that France must increase her army and navy, and, hugest joko of all, _ef atrial fleet! The Christchurch "Press" la_. week referred editorially to "the wave of patriotism" which had be** passing over France and inducing increased armament. Tlie "Australian menace" explains it. The "wave of patriotism," is, as usual, being engineered by capitalist papers to assist the parasitic armament syndicates to make more 20 per ceftt. dividends, at the expense ef the workers. I.n the twentieth century "patriotism" is again becoming what it wag in Johnson's time— ""tiho last refuse of scoundrels." ■ -■■■« TJAVING noticed in the Hon. J. T. Paul's notes some examples of high wages being increased as tho result of certain strikes in America, and also having noticed the condemnation by the same Mr. Paul of the "American methods" as adopted in New Zealand, "More Light writes to the editor of the "Otago Daily Times," seeking enlightenment. He asks: "Why should net these same methods succeed in New _oa!arid as well as in America? Have we nob employers and Workers here as in America? Have we not the two extremes of wealth and poverty here as in America? I ask these questions of Mr. Paul because bo and he party of which he is president have been very seveiV on tlie methods of the Federation of Labor in New Zealand.' Moreover, I think a. little more light may not be, out of place after his quotation of tbe success of these American organisations with regai'd to the increased wages consequent, on striking." -i • . A BOUT 20 of Godley's conscript boys soldiers wore hauled before tho Lyttolton Court.on August 7 and charged with having wrecked things on the Murder Department's promises on July 30. They had put out the lights, played football inside the shed, smashed vhe lamps, hurled lurid language -round, and performed ether wild and whirling deeds. The boys were lectured and discharged, as indeed thf\v should have been, for it's certainly nob fair to penalise lads for being hooligans when they are being forced to drill for bloodbesmirched hooliganism. At the same time, if 20 Passive Resistr-is bad come before the. same court on a similar charge of larrikinisni, would I hey hay," Biave been 'et off. with a 1.-.Um-:' U'e jdon'fc think. The incident furnishes {another good reason for the no-drill prigade. It soems tho best the Dcfenco