An Outside Admirer

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 86, 1 November 1912, Page 2

An Outside Admirer

APPLAUDS THE FEDERATION.

Sir, —I forward with this a pound note for the Federation of Labor, to be for the benefit of the jailed strikers' families. I present it as a testimonial to the warriors against cant, humbug, and dry-rot, not as charity; therefore,. I hope it will be accepted as coming from an outsider who admires and believes in free thought and free speech. I hold that by virtue of an agreement with the proprietors the Waihi mine was a labor-market reserved for the Federation of Labor, and the" proprietors did not keep faith when it proposed to buy labor from nnother organisation. I wonder how some of our business people who howl at union tyranny would tolerate Syrian pedlars coming into their shops and selling goods to customers before the latter could reach the counter? Your Woukers are fine Socialistic reading. This country wants such literature badly to keep it tolerably sweet.— Yours, etc.,/

A. W. TYNDALL. Middlemerch, Otago.