Notes from the Coast.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 83, 11 October 1912, Page 3

Notes from the Coast.

Fellow-workers, men and women of Waihi, of Reefton, ye inland toilers, yo coastal strugglers for existence, forging on, ever on, for Freedom— what a wealth of comradeship is oursNo, brother, sister, there is nothing mystical, illusory about these our times. The battalions of Labor aro moving. Fellow-Federationists, don't we. feel the rapture and pathos of the class struggle? The mighty organisation that, throbs with the living units and the living units that vibrate within the. mighty, formidable organisation. The revolt of the. workers. Let it grow. Prison bars will but rross us forward. At Some Outposts. Since I last wrote I have been further along the working-class outposts. The Socialists at Ngakawau and Granity invited mc down to address a couple of meetings, so I hied mc to tbe new country. Among the memories evergreen will that visit find a place. Comrade Editor., when you can leave for a while the Worker office, which is, in a manner speaking, tho hub of Iho Maoriland toilers' universe, I hope you will come this way. Right gladly do I commend Ngakawau and Granity, and I assure you eager hearts and sterling comrades are everywhere here for your eotm'np;. "Tho Vag." the inevitable "Vag.," irresistible bottom-dogger, has been to the. heights of Denniston. Ho has left a lasting impression on tho hill. The only Va2 and fhe only Hill worthy of note. The- hill people are anxious for his return. "We'll meet again some future day." Denniston Engine-drivers. When engine-drivers are spoken of in the. future, let some mention be made of the militant Denniston men. Their president has been in offioe for a considerable number of years, and is no relic of craft day..: This body, it will'be remembered, had its own rep. at the last F.L. Conference. These mcii are worthy to drive the wheels within tho Democracy —true, to the call and to the 10 per cent..levy, their strength behind tho only workers' paper in the Dominion alive to Industrial Unionism. Fel-low-workers, pledge them next time. A Westport Presentation. At ■Westport I met H. E. Holland. When the port people were hurrying along the streets there was an incident happened unnoticed —but let it not be unsung. Right where the street wa. worn perhaps the most, H. E. Holland was presented, m the name of comrades, with an umbrella. Few were the words of Comrade Newman and Holland, but hearts were warm. Denniston Hall. Denniston S.P. has been toiling to realise a dream that has been lingering around those hard grey rocks. A Socialist Hall is being built, and is well forward. If ever you by choice or by force of economic pressure should visit Denniston, thero is much you will hear ahout this hall. "Tho Vag" sprung a button when he beheld the only Socialist Hall in Maoriland's despotic realm.

There is a Mission Hall at Burnett's Face, environ of Denniston, subscribed largely by tbe public. The straggling Socialist Party wan refused admission as a parly, so we were driven to a colcf, draughty, choerlet. place, but welcomed nevertheless by the. revolutionaries. But tho hall is visible that was, by even ourselveg, the comrades, spoken of in dreams, and tho revolution that we bail will*ho as visible soon. Yea, verily. So well are we moving that we adopted our balance-sheet at last meeting with enthusiasm—yet we have a hard row to how, but our hearts are full of good cheer and we turn to the task before us with thrilling hqpe. Holland's Work. Two days are red-letter ones for Denniston hill-folk. H. E. Holland addressed meetings at Burnett's Face and Denniston. He set tho growth of mental evolution a few revolutions ahead amidst the toilers. A few more of the fetters on the wage-slaves have been chiselled off per points of working-class logic; the leg-irons will follow by-and-by#. Denniston is inspiringly strong for the Bed Federation and mates of Waihi and Reefton; and Holland has fanned the blaze along our frontiers into veritable furnaoes that will melt any fakir, scab or traitor that ventures hereabouts. Strongly-worded resolutions were passed demanding the immediate and unconditional release of fellow-workers of Waihi, with a determination to cast our last ounce of energy for the triumph of the breadwinners. The Maokiland Worker, Semple, Webb, "The Vag.," and Holland aro among the working-class forces that havo registered living truths upon tho worker-minds of Denniston. Great and epochal as the' hour of lucid speech may bo aud is, I think that the determining results are best seen in the slave-pens. When one's shackles are rubbing against some others then — then, have words and actions the fuller meaning. Well, brothers, these forces have been and the Denniston wage-slaves are discussing tbe vital principles that vibrate with working-class destiny.— BILLY BANJO.