Wrangling or Unity

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 90, 6 December 1912, Page 8

Wrangling or Unity

COMBINATION ESSENTIAL.

THE EMPLOYERS' LOVELY

POSITION

Sir,—lt is a strange thing that workers will go on wrangling amongst themselves continuously to their own detriment, year in and year out. When will they get sense ? Why don't they take a leaf out of the bosses' book: they have a Federation embracing pretty well every employer; yes, a Federation, and a strong combination it is. They believe an injustice to one is an injustice to all. Why, in the name of commonsense, don't the workers read, mark, loam and inwardly digest the abovethen they will perhaps understand that they will never gain their ends until they do likewise. "What is good for the goose is also good for the gander. A federation they must have sooner or later. The old craft union has played its part, it is obsolete; there is nothing gained by a divided house, therefore I would ask all workers to think; don't let the other fellow do all the thinking.

for you—might as well let him <lorall your eating. Nature endowed each and all with a brain to use, not to lose; the more tit© brain is used, the more powerful it becomes, and eventually will do good business if each and every one will think for himself.

Workers! a federation you must have; you can call it what you like— United Labor Party or otherwise, but it must be a federation "of all Labor. Just think a bit, you toilers—don't you consider there is something radically wrong when the producers of everything just get about nothing, and the producers of nothing gelj nearly everything. Why provide the latter with his motor and bo satisfied with the dust and smell after it passes? Why provide him and his with every luxury of life and go with the bare necessities yourself? Why not consider your own wives and youngsters instead of the idle rich ? Why, you ought to be ashamed iof yourselves when you neglect your own children for the benefit of the loafers', shouldn't you? Yes, get moving, get talking to your mates, do your own. thinking, club together, take a leaf out of the bosses' book and federate; don't crawl to the boss: he doesn't give a tinker's curse for you; lie simply wants to get as much profit out of you as lie can—is,n't he laughing up his sleeve when he gets on man (?) to scab on another? Shake a leg, get a hustle on, think of your children and then, when you have an organisation as strong as the bosses' — why, you will get everything and he will get nothing, unless he becomes honest and works.—Yours, etc., WM. MARCUS JONES. Onehunga.