Strike and Lock-out.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 88, 22 November 1912, Page 1

Strike and Lock-out.

News and Views.

Don't be a scab. Don't go to Waihi. Don't be a scab. Don't stay in Waihi. Herb. Kennedy and party were each earning £7 a week when the strike ' started. They are now "stony." With- | out grave cause do men in their posi- '■ tion strike to fight like they fought!' j * * ! For a time money will be wanted more than ever. Once again, the his-tory-making givers will rise to the oci casion. J * ->; r- ! Tviripaka Secretary Rolfs left Whai ngarei ta attend fellow-worker Evans' I iuneral. It is reported in the Greymonth papers that' work is to be resumed at Reef ton on December 1. From "Otago Daily Times" of November 15 (wired from Auckland on November 14 by Press Association): — The Paeroa boat which arrived in Auckland this- morning contained about 30 fugitives from Waihi. Several of thcpe were women with small children in their charge. As passengers they were very quiet. It lias been explained that many of those who have been forced to flee from Waihi have taken refuge in the meantime in Karangahake and Pacroa. Some of the men who have been very severe]v handled are said to be hiding in the hills. In the messages sent from Wellington "special to the Christchurch 'Press'" on November 13 appeared the following: "Th.3 general impression here is that the shooting incident will nut an end ! to the Red Federation, and that Messrs. I Semple and Co. would do well to make } a prompt exit' from the country. . . . The Justice Department is taking no special action in tho matter of to-day's proceedings at Waihi." Wire from State mine on Friday: "Will hold special meeting Sunday. Secure wreath for Comrade Evans and charge same my union.—Hunter." vfetfSfr 1 '* 1 ' Borough Couiuil has got ■fclie'r'jaei'dYum'of "Labor so badly on the

The Campaign for Workingclass THumph.

nerves that it has circularised local bodies throughout New Zealand asking them only to employ men willing to sign a declaration affirming their loyalty to the King and the Union Jack. If it were not that the authors of the pro- | posal were suffering from hysteria, and therefore not responsible foi- their actions, this insulting suggestion would no doubt provoke a. great deal of angry comment. As it is the local bodies may be depended upon to give it short shrift.~"N.Z. Times." I * • j On arrival at Cjiristchurch last Frii day Semple gave a lengthy interview on the situation to tho "Press." j Actually ordered by police out of Karangahake for no other reason than that they were Waihi strikers. O holy I Law and Order! - — • Be up and doing I It is hard to say whom Mills is now chafing liaidcst—the Government or the j Federation. Herdman or Semple.' YesNo even in this hour. But we know wliei'«? Massev is—do we know where Mills is? a « "I hope when you have got all the facts together that the Federation will issue a pamphlet on the Waihi riot for free distribution. As far as this place is concerned, I warrant the Socialists will see that every house gets one." Thus a correspondent. The Australian remedy for strikes is breaking down. In default of a new attitude on the part' of the unions, the Arbitration Courts hare arrived at a veritable cul de sac, Whatever success arbitration has achieved has been gained on a rising market. When the inevitable drought and depression arrive and wages have to be cut down from their present artificially inflated figure arbitration must break irretrievably.—P. Airev ("Peter Luftig") in the "National Review." Tha Federation has protested against the foremanship of Wallnutt at the Evans inqn'est on the ground that"he is' an interested party and not impartial. Fred. Turner: "If ever the workers gave thanks for having your office it wns last v.'eek, when your "special" came out nnd checked the lying and set the liars backing-down." Word came to The Worker office on Wednesday of last week that women at Waihi were afraid of assault and worse that evening. The proposal was made that the Minister of Justice be communicated with, but when il< was ; recilleeted that the Minister was Herd- : man the proposal seemed preposterous, j

Messrs. Wallnutt and Toy, of Waihi, are between them the correspondents for New Zealand's papers. And being against the strikers they naturally worked to break the strike.

Cullen's Cossacks will nevermore earn the friendship of the working-class.

r «... Herdman's vainglorious "blabbing" to the capitalistic papers ought to be valuable evidence when and if a commission of inquiry gets to work on the Waihi outrage.

"If I were in a position to advise the workere I would urge that they should

not make conditions so hard here that braiu9 or capital will go elsewhere," says the President of the Victorian Employers' Federation. It is siintily wonderful- how these .philunifbropie capital* iste are just falling over -each other to give the worker advice. But when it comes to giving higher wages, better working conditions, or cheaper rents they relax into a state of masterful inactivity.—Sydney "Worker." • < * Mayor Newtli, of Waihi, has issued a manifesto. This Mayor sat on the platform of the stolen Miners' Hall when sedition wholesale was mouthed by the scab orators —Rudd, Potter, Best, Foster and Harvey—and though a public dignitary he never uttered a protest against the "clearing-out" violence advised. Now that the business people want back Waihi's population, the Mayor is craw-fishing.

The late F. G. Evans was a member of the Masons' lodge at Waihi.

"The man who doe 3 you out of your job is as much your enemy as it is possible for a man to be. For taking away your living is taking away your life." That ia how Bart Kennedy, a wellknown English writer, sums up the scab.-

When the manufacturers moan for more protection from the products of cheap labor countries they spin a spnri-

ou9 coin with two king's heads. For while they clamor for preference for their own products they heap scorn on preference to their union workers as agaiust non-unionists, whose only claim is that they maintain the curse of cutthroat competition by which the employers manage to reap not only the profits of preference in their business in our market, but also the unholy gain from a skinflint scale of wages. —Exchange.

Tlms "Bobus" in "Barrier Truth" :— When a strike is on the capitalist is the last man to inquire into the nativity or religion of his scabs —it's perhaps just as well that he does not. On the other hand, however, he is continually pointing out that the majority of the men on strike are importations and atheist 3. The other night "Truth" received the following cable from Wellington, Now Zealand, in reference to the jailed Waihi strikers: —"Of the 45 strikers who preferred to go to jail rather than enter into formal bonds to keep peace, 24 are Australians and 13 New Zealanders. Official records show that half of the men declared themselves as having no religion." " The chief disturbers of, the peace are Australians! It was the sanwduring the Slaughtermen's Strike a few years ago. Then half the men are atheists 1 Are we to deduce from the former that Australians are pluckier than New Zealanders, and that if they're going to get

"hell" in the next life they're determined to have as little as possible of that same in the present one? Note that phrase about refusing to enter into "formal bonds." "Formal" bonds of a hundred pounds per man! Not much formality about bonds of that type, I'm thinking. UNCONQUERABLE. Courage yet, my brother or my sister 1 Keep on. Liberty is to .be subserved, whatever occurs, There is nothing that is quelled by one or two failures or by any number of failures, Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness, Or by the show of tho tushes of piwer, soldiers, cannon, pennl statutes. —Walt. Whitman. • * * "IT MATTERETH NOT AT ALL." If staunch we fight in the war 9of woo Against oppressors high or low, And whether we win or fall. Tien whence we came or whither we go It mattereth not at all. If patient we bear the traps of greed, If the sick we comfort, the hungry feed, And sweeten the rue of shame. It mattereth not at all our creed, Our title, or blood or fame. —Bernard O'Dowd.