Wants a Workers' Daily

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 87, 15 November 1912, Page 3

Wants a Workers' Daily

THE NEED AND HOW IT COULD BE MET. ACTIVITY URGED. Sir,—The more I think of it, the more I am impressed that the Federation of Labor wants a daily paper to educate the working-class in the. interests of Industrial Unionism and Socialism, and also to reply to the wholesale lying on the part of the capitalistic press and the work of that "Milwaukee Giant," the "Professor."

It seems to every militant unionist, no doubt, that this is or should bo -the next step that this grand democratic organisation will take after tho unfortunate, yet beneficial, troubles at Waihi and Reef ton, Huntly, Auckland and Karangahake come to a beneficial settlement. Notwithstanding the lying press, the policeman's bludgeon and the combined forces of the gold-kings, Employers' Federation, United Labor Party, Trades and Labor Council and that Old Curiosity Shop in Molesworth street, the Federation has proved a match for. their efforts to "down the Federation at all costs."

By means of a daily organ, owned and controlled by the working-class, we may educate the deaf, dumb, silly, bigoted and prejudiced members of our class who are keeping us in poverty, vice, misery and degradation. Knowing that we have such individuals, it should be our united strength and desire to attain this object-. Every trades unionist, industrial unionist, rationalist, anti-militarist.. Socialist, and every democratic organisation which aims at the abolition of wage-slavery, should centre their financial aid to this proposition. By this, nnd this alone, we will be able to build up an organisation so strong that, the relics of capitalism will fall to the ground, never to rise again.

At present we only have the "platform" (or the soap box, as the press terms our pulpit) and Trre WortEF.R which cannot successfully hit the enemy hard enough, often enough, or effectively enough to suit our comrades in revolt. What we want is an active, militant paper, which will daily pour through its colums truth and justice to the inhabitants of this fair land of ours, endeavoring to educate workers in the interests of their own class.

The great question arises: "How and where will we pet the necessary money to run n daily?" Well, if the workers in the Federation of Labor can subscribe nearly fW.OOO (apart from Australian contributions') towards the Waihi and Roeften disputes, cannot they buy a paper for themselves? Yes. If there is any solidarity nt. nil (as there seems to be) we will certr.inlv have a daily paper owned, controlled, and worked by the working-class for the worker?. Tn conclusion, I wish to ask comrades and those connected with this movement to take this matter up, talk about it. reply te it, pull it to pieces generally discuss above proposals. I can see a daily on the horizon, and I will never rest until it is hero in our midst. —T am. etc., Wellington. HOPEFUL.