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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 78, 6 September 1912, Page 5

I Id Our Opinion ; 4TEEP 000 l and hit hard. • OTOLD fast to the Federation as th sheet anchor of your liberties. i JJPPER HOUSE reform is side-track Ing. Abolition of the Upper Hous ia the working-class plank. * /YUR newest Worker pamphlet is H E. Holland's "Labor Leg-ironed.' IWe want this pamphlet to go lik< smoke, and we urge unions and partie to Bend in their orders quickly. Arbi tration is the industrial controversy o the hour, and the pamphlet is timel* and convincing. • ■ nCIVERY man who speaks the truth r< the Federation of Labor and ram: the lie down the throats of the boss': pimps and tools does a service to b< remembered. Now, now, now is the timi to speak as brave men speak. There fore, hats off to Harry Voyce, Lytteltoi •waterside secretary, for a useful am ftraight-out Tejoinder to calumnies. _ /T__E dirtiest of the dirty, the mos unspeakable of tho lowest, are thi informers and the spies within a move f went. The Labor Party press outside o New Zealand i» clean, but in this lam "the only Labor newspaper in Noi\ Eealand" is too leprous for decent mci to handle. And decent Laborists wouk traxry to dissociate themselves from tin ''rotter." Why doesn't the Labor Part* fisora its posturing mouthpiece. - o WfHAT else will he charged to th< account of the Federation o Labor? A par is going the rounds o: the city and country press concerning the iacreasii"j*; number of able-bodice 1 men in Auckland who are continuall-bailing-up business men and othen with the request for a tray-bit or i >prati to relieve- their temporary finau cial embarrassment. We are told tha; no fewer than three men accosted ar Auckland citizen one day recently. Oik Individual wanted sixpence in order thai he might get shaved. Upon his requosi being refused, he turned indignantly upon the citizen accosted, and said "Wait a while, and the Federation nl Labor will settle men like you." What next? 1 - ■%►' — ' —— call special attention to the article on Syndicalism appearing ir our "Bookland" department. It wil take a few weeks to complete the arti cle, and we therefore advise student! to cut out the instalments. We d< not remember to have read in Englisl so full and scholarly an account of th< subject. Mutilations and misrepresentations have appeared by the score. Tin article is the joint work of two ol Syndicalism's ablest theoreticians or the European Continent, and is possiand "e'ea'rest -icatements on that somewhat obscure jnubject which has yet appeared. That it appeared in the foremost English ..review adds lustre to its educationa .value. _ A S the result of a ballot among th< branches, F. R. Cooke has beer elected as paid secretary of the Social ist Party of New Zealand. We congratu late him on his appointment. His typt and sort are the gifts of gods. He will have' a hard row to hoe, especially as he is talcing office at a time when every branch has more calls tliar it can meet. However, Cnoko will dr his best, and if the branches do like wise the present depression will bo seer through, and then the good luirk pro ceed successfully. The Socialist move ment has to be built up, and inevitably the militant workers will flock to its Standard sooner or later. Meanwhile let all that can be done be done. Reac Cooke's secretarial letter and send as sistance. E. R. Hartley must be paid for he has well earned his compara-tively-small wages. Hustle! ,—»_ rpHE Christchurch "Press" continue! in itß suppression of Defence anc international murder criticism. To th< large, and enthusiastic anti-militarisl meeting held in that city on Sunday flight, August, 20, tho "Lyttelton Times" devoted a column and a quarter. The sup-"Press" gave a loca of 25 lines! At this meeting, by th< way, a prominent Christchurch laciy Mrs. C. Coleridge Farr, who proposer! an amendment against an anti-militar-ist resolution, pluckily admitted to th' audience at the close of the meeting that she had that evening been conVerted to anti-militarism. To be sure, tbe "Press" made no mention of this incident, although it made much of tin amendment. C. R. Whiting, IV R, Cooke, Rev. C. Murray, C. R. N. Mac kie, Mrs. A. Wells, J. A. McCullough and E. R. Hartley were the speakers A formidable array. , A CCORDING to a return on the con _, scription scheme, Mr. Allen, Minister for Murder, says officers'.salaries for the year amounted to „3_,310 travelling expenses, £7617. Workeout in detail, it pans out like this:— Per Year 'Average salary for officers (78) £363 '6 fAverage travelling expenses 97 13 ( £460 19 t (Twelve additional artillery Officers 331 16 i Average salary for all officers £359 1 ] Dr just a shade under 235. per day exclusive of travelling expenses, whicl iiring the salary up to 28s. _d. po