Strike Strokes.

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

Strike Strokes.

EVERY ONE A "SIXER. ,,

Strike.

And lock-out. Now iik their fourteenth weeK. Settlement not yet in sight. Position still "a* you were."Whose move is it? Not the Federation's. Sure thing. '

The Mine-owners' Association n* sponsible for both troubles.

Broke its agreement with tlie Beef- < ton men. f: Insisted on introducing conditions of i work entirely foredgn to the agreement*-, under which the miners worked. f

The latter "N.H.A.—-Not Having Any," as Bland Holt used to *ay. *

Hence the lock-out,

At Waihi the Associationthe formation of a separate union "$# a few measley "bosseß* tools." '

Notwithstanding that its. agreement! with the Workers' TJniea embraced all glasses of mine employe**.

Including the spineless ♦ngine-drivers aforesaid.

Traitors to their class, Serpents in the grass.

Who brought a state of things Iβ pass.

That suited the masters to ft T. • •• «

Federation supporters i_ci_aal__ i_ number daily. Funds coming in freely. Watch the figures growing week by wesk. Aren't you proud of the militant, self-sacrificing unionists of _tew Z-tt- \ land and Australia? All together: WE ARRI "And Joshua said to the people, "And the people shouted with a great Bhout." That's a precedent worthy of emulation to-day. Let it go I 'l .This ia the greatest - ' ' at Sydney M JJ__eti_»* _M_*ittgly to the "red .ag Federation." Delightfully- humor-seme t_f s comment, eh? The pot calling the kettle black. The "Bully" has always been -nomas the "red rag." The "red rag" of RepublWnfanv whose chief Joss it Protection. Its obsession now ii th© bogey of I Japanese invasion. _ The head and front of the FedWWtions offending is its fcpposition to* conscription. So tho Federation * B tsat____ : t_ the "Bully." axtaxn«__ W Let as weep,

So say's the "Grey River itf of course it must be true. We DON'T think. What said Comrade Hartley tßf tfe people who read the "Argus P" "If some perrons were unde* tie impression that the Federation wm on the decline, they could undeceive themselves.

''There is aa much likelihood of the Federation of Labor being burst up as there is of New Zealand itself bursting up."

Quit© true,

His Jills. W. T. Mills. Hβ of the funny face frills. Who in the Daily Page much ink of the smudgiest Spills. With his quills, in the cure of all ills with his quack potions and pills. His Nibs. With his fibs. Earns his dibs. Says it is not the pvrpow <jf the United Labor Party to "kill the Fβ* eration." Ha, ha! That's a good 'un. Beate the best joke in tihe paato. ETow many assassin stabs in the back has he given the Federation' himself? And what price the records ef the Wellington and Auckland Trades Councils? Each of which ha# eituett setwrtl sneaking sockdologers with » sandbag , at the Federation. The latter refuses to be "Otrted'* tat keeps. Chockful of go and ginger, spunk and spirit. Comes up smiling et&ty time. But it's Mot because they haven't tried that Mills and hia marionettes haven't killed it. Like the Texas cowboy, each c*n claim to have "done his durndest" to give it the coup de grace. Is't not so, fellow-workers? It will be brought home to them in the future. "Remember Waihi" will sound th« death-knell of many a Labor Part; 1 candidate for political power. \