Heard and Said

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 87, 8 November 1912, Page 1

Heard and Said

That a period of industrial struggle, •uch. as now, when workers are on •trike, is no time for the balancing of judgment on a slack wire by others of their class.

That the occasion calls for a unanimity »nd fixity of judgment that takes a firm hold of the earth.

That there was never a situation more indeed of definite attitudes by those claiming to be of the workers and for the workers, or one less suited for the postnrings of equilibrists cf the Mills stamp f

That the English strike of last y-«r advanced the railwaymen's wages ly a Bolid £1,500,000 a year. That that is-something for iVe anlistrike, political-crazy TJ.L.P.-it.?3 to chew over and reflect upon.

That aoeording to the reading (f certain Australian religionists the divine command is: "Suffer little children (legitimate only) to come unto Me."

That the pen is mightier than the sword, and the workers' pre=js can spike the big guvs of capitalism.

That after December next, every State In Australia bar two, West Australia and Victoria, will have a workingolass daily newspaper.

That it's up to the New Zealand workers to get a move on in this direction.

That the law has more horsehair about it than horse-sense.

That birlh distinctions are out of date, yet aviators, who are in the vrr. <f .progress, worry considerably about their "descent."

That this seems rather a ghastly subject to jest about, with thoughts of the terrible toll of lives the airmen have given to scie~?e.

That life, however, is but a grim jest .to countless numbers of the world's ■inhabitants.

That the warp of tragedy and the woof of comedy are so closely interwoven -in the skein of life that it is ofttimes hard to distinguish one from the other.

That the dividing line betwr-- the grave and the gay is but a hair'sbreadth.

That innw aphovist H* -1 '« ute as "a tragedy to those who feel, a comedy to those who think."

That as the vast majority of people both feel and think, it is an intermingling of both, with tragedy, however, sadly predominating in the lives of the greatest percentage. That nothing could Ix? more tragical ' than the fate of a Now York nonojgemarian who hanged himself in de- , «pair because ho was workless.

That these were the words he left behind written on a .slip of paper: "I can't,get a job. Why don't somebody give mc a job? There's no use living if you can't work."

That John Norton, the* (redoubtable proprietor of "Truth," recently returned to Sydney after a long holiday iatj./'oad.

Tb?+ ft.?, consolidated his remarks to interv-Wwers in a couple of sentences. Jfhat he said: "I was INS months away. I spent a third of my time in a luna<tic -asylum, a third in jail, and the remainder I was unconscious. That's the sort of holiday I had!" That a "free laborer" is a man who freely and, without question obeys the bidding of his boss. •That Europe is a good place to be out ,of just now, but there are millions vvho don't know it.

ThS* someone has aptly described war as the sum of all the villainies, because it causes suffering, misery, and slaughter which no tongue or pen can caver sufficiently describe. yhat the first to set the present European butchery going was Italian capitalism, fyhich wanted foreign markets, hetiee the attack on Tripoli.