Auckland in the Van.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 83, 11 October 1912, Page 4

Auckland in the Van.

THE GENERAL STOPPAGE.

THINGS DOING AND DONE.

The workers of Waihi are winninggloriously— are four scabs out of 700 men. Bravo, men and women of Waihi; you hare the mine and its owners in tlie palm of your hands. According to the lying "Herald" and' "Star," they are getting defeated, but telegrams from the scene of action give the lie direct to the honorable "specials."

Imagine sending Maoris, derelicts, and sundowners into the Waihi mine to get profit for Fat and Co.! Ha, ha 1 that is the best joke I have heard since. Bob Semple went south.

The Auckland strike committee is getting all news from working-class quarters and publishing it on handbills for distribution, to counteract the cultured press people's daily lies. 1 wonder if Brother Rhodes is counted in the 197 hard-working standing jokes who are hanging around and in the Waihi mine and getting paid for it. Or perhaps he counts a dozen, being a director. Things are well on the way for the organisation of a general stoppage of work as a protest against the jailing of our Waihi comrades. The watersiders are, as usual, first in the field like they were to welcome Bill Parry and friends a fortnight ago. Ted Canham is right in the lead. A big committee from all bodies concerned, including the I.W.W. and Socialist Party, to make arrangements for processions, bands, procedure, etc., will be formed by small committees elected from interested organisations. The prospects in Auckland are exceptionally rosy at this juncture for the proposed holiday, and I hope to see all side issues put aside until this matter is thoroughly Organised and our comrades are released from the vile atmosphere of a capitalist hell. Honor to our 45 comrades; their names will live* Because they have realised their class responsibilities and also that liberty depending upon the whim of a bluecoa.t is no liberty at all. The righting spirit is abroad hx Auckland aud I venture to say that Labor will emerge from the dust of industrial war with the gleam of victory in its eve, with intelligence in its face, wth its arms linked together in industrial organisation, its mouth uttering the slogan of the class war—"Workers of all lands, unite!" Let the capitalist have political power, police amd press behind' them; let them lie arid bluster and buy, but we shall defeat them. The class war is on,the fight is raging, so brothers organise closer into one fighting organisation. Mental dyna?frighten the boss mor4 than sticks. Pass on your Labor papers, distribute pamphlets, reason and rally to the standard. A big strike meeting- at the wba*f on Sunday week was conducted by Comrades Stott, Savage, and Way, and the collection realised £- An enormous crowd congregated, arid the boys fluiig ths right stuff at them, sowing seed's of revolt and action. The Socialisb Sunday-school has now 50 children attending and is growing rapidly. The kiddies are of a; fardy intelligent type, and will be very material factors in the stirring days to come. Federationist and Socialist workers are; invited to send their children, along to Comrade Mcßrine, tlie tutor. Wednesday night is open night for parents, which gives an opportunity to develop the much-needed singing- and choruses that are the hall-mark of a successful movement. Keep the movement going, boys. We are out to win. They can never beat us in spite of all their scabs, their dupes, their lies and their press.— SPANWIRE.