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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 76, 23 August 1912, Page 5

I In Our Opinion j A GITATION is never resultless, if it "*' is kept going. — «►_ QUR striking cartoon of last week, with its brilliant versical point, excited much comment. The number wen t splendidly, many copies going to Australia. Most everybody commends the new shape, and get-up. , $___ npHE enemies rely on the levy-pay-ers growing tired, and then starving tho strikers and locked-out into rout and defeat. But Federationists never tire—they have gripped essentials. They belong to the deathless army. ■.v.".:.,.-iL^-_= g= - TF, at the end of over 12 months, "* "learned" magistrates are ignorant of the contents, or ruling, of the Defence Act, how long will it take the average worker or wage-slave to understand what the Act really stands forP ♦ rjpHE strike and lock-out fund has passed the £10,000 post. Notice the magnificent total donated by Federation anions, with Granity past the £1000 post and State Mine, Blackball, and Denniston close up. It is breathlessly superb. It spells victory—must and shall spell it. - -~- : 9 . -' . CM3 many conscripts are refusing to drill in Australia that military officers are despairingly suggesting that the "training of the forces should bo divided into seasons, tho three midsummer months to bo devoted to sport and the midwinter months to military training." ,:. -■„ .. . O- — JTIiHE Gospel according to the Apos- "*" ties: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." Modern version, according to High Commissioner Mackenzie: "If Quakers and others are not prepared to partake in the international murder scheme, for GocPs sake let them get out of the country and .off the planet, and leave the inheritance of the earth to the violent and those of us who are exempt fj'oni military service." : -♦ I ,\)I7*HY the antagonism of the church- j cs to Socialism? One of the fun'danientp.l principles of Socialism is the Recognition .of the brotherhood of man. Socialism recognises no differences in class, e-reed. raca, color, or nation. In ! essence, it is the very highest ideal ; of morality. As George Jacob Holyoak" summed it, up years ago: "So- \ cia-lism aims to make good citizens, j good neighbors, good parents and good ! woi km en." ; —« r A T a recent meeting of the Broken • Hill A.M. A., a communication was ! from the Industrial Registrar, H.-king the union to appoint two cntor. on the Conciliation Board in conneeiion with the Industrial Arbitration • The secrof ar y- ir.stvj-t?'! to \ 3-er,'" that the union refused to nomins delegates to the Board and that it would not recoguisfc the Act in any w?.y, inasmuch as it considered the I.nbor Party's Arbitration Act to be on n mr with "Wade's Coercion Act. npHE bogus union of Waihi has issued a manifesto, purporting to he an "exposure of tho Federation of Labor." Its contents ought to damn the antiFederation engine-drivers, even in trades council circles. If its contents do not damn the engine-drivers as anti-working-class it must be due to si lack of understanding of workingclass history and hopes. The misstate-1 rnents it allegedly corrects matter little by comparison, .with its sentiments. Finally, a body that issues such an "on- ] posura" for capitalist purposes brands j itself, pronounces its own doom. j '"T WANT to emphasise this fact, that ! steadily and under our very eyes i the newspaper prer-s of this country i is being bought up by the wealthy ; classes and the only refuge wo. now have is in the platform."—G. Lauren- ! son, in "Ham-ard," No. 5, p. 4fi2. The j member f-r Lvttelton has grasped a \ great fac*i and one which completely J explains why it is so difficult to open j a. discussion on conscription in our ' newspapers, and why every Dominion I journal is boosting an infamous Act I and downing the strike. Let us have j signed articles and the power of the i capiwlist press is gone. I PROM Auckland "Herald": "It is a ■ difficult matter tn make the averago Auckland youth respect th« uniform of the territorial force. Of late, j when officers and instructors have been • passing through -tho street they have j been insulted by such remarks as "Mr. ! Compulsory Training.'' Even tho pri- i vatc jd subjected to this ridicule. This j is surely a reflection on, a uniform as- i sociatetl with tho highest traditions and j courage of the Imperial service. And it \ is for the Government to enact a law whereby such hooligans shall receive the correction they require." How dreadful! More suggestions as to punishment required by this wretched Act. • rTHHE Boy Scout movement is a sordid piece of commru-ciahsm like the rest of militarism. The Vn-pocrisy of the \ thing is an nbomina'ion. 'We renectly referred to Baden Powell's latest work. It tells the girls for whom it is written, a lot of humbug about 700,000 people starving in England through the fault of their mothers!—how the rich people are good to them and provide them with free food —"they (the rich people) also have to pay taxes for owning land and for servants and car- | riages, which all help to provide bos- j pi tale, schools, and dwellings for thei poor!" The whole thing—scouting and ; compulsory military training—is simply en aristocratic and capitalistic movement designed, to keep back tho rising tide of true democracy. ♦ •-— : JOHN F. MACDONALD interestingly ! writes on "The Life Story of ; Madame Steinhei!'-' in the May "Fort- > nightly Review." The newest in <-di- j toriiil methods is fcatliingly described:: ''-"Then did the 'Mai in' am! 'Echo <h> . Paris' Yellow Journalists force the con- i