The Flaxies.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 75, 16 August 1912, Page 8

The Flaxies.

A LETTER FROM PALMERSTON

NORTH

Sir,—Seeing so many reports in thecapitalist press of our half-yearly meeting, I thonght I would send you a few facts that you might make use of in the workers' paper.

The first one is that the meeting agreed to hear Mr. Praser, the Federation delegate, after the union business was dispensed with, but owing to most of the heads being Unity dodgers, some of their followers were allowed to get up and kill time discussing the question that Fraser came to speak on-, and in so doing made it too late for him to speak.

You see the mill-owner 9 advised some of our members that the Federation was no good, and the sooner we pulled away from it the better. I like the way they splash about their good advice, bub I notice that whenever the men in the industry want to better their conditions they have always had to fight in the past and I am sure they will have to do so in the future.

I would like to tell you that we Jaave been before the Arbitration Couft on two occasions-, and I am Sorry fo> say we got a reduction in wage's the second time. No wonder the tnill-owners want arbitration!

The next point is that the ejection of the present of our union was not fought on the lines the capitalist 'press gave tmt—Federation v. Unity $bheme. I feel sure that with a littjfe propaganda work through this disijl-ieb before the end of August, we shall show these Unity plotters that when \he ballot is taken we will carry the. Federation for ever.—BOTTOM-DOGGER.