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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 91, 13 December 1912, Page 4

7n Our Opinion a | TROUBLES still on at Kiripaka and Taitapu. Congratulations to the small band of true and brave fighters at both places, Keep a way I ♦■ ____. TT was stated in the Waihi Police ~ Court that one of the scabs was known as th. "White Hope." How can a blackleg be anything white? ♦_— fJME to the January conference. If J unionism matters to you, heed not the fault-finders. Why hot a Trades Union Congress in, this WrtUttryP Why not unity on the industrial field P 1 npHE lock-out and the strike, the pox liceman's baton, the soldier's bullet, the thug's bludgeon, and the in difference of the capitalist to humar life in mine, workshop and factory an the strongest evidences _f the claSa war ♦- TT is peculiar that the only prose- **■ cutions instituted in connection with the scab-police riots at Waihi were against Federationists, whose easts were stated in The Worker special issue. « rjIHE scab union at Waihi has a clause in its rules which permits mine-owners, mine-managers, and trasihesS people generally to become members. As a matter of fact, many local business people are *____b_rs. ■ rpHE threat of the 'Auckland opera- **- tive bakers to strike last Saturday unless the master bakers obsefved the new award as to Abolition of night shift led to the employers conceding the demands of the men. Now, why didnt these operatives tamely submit and us. the ballot next election,. tad th. one after, and so on forever P on a hustle for the Evans Fund X * Honor tho union deftd llf m«_ are to be slaughtered for unionism, then the new unionism is going to see that the widowed and orphaned at* treated better than patriotism treats its victims. The workers of these days have brains as well as courage. T_ey re* fuse to allow death td mean starvation also. • rpHE Employers' Federation has ap« *■ pointed Mr. N. Moßobie (et W_tf_ newspaper notoriety) and Mr. R. A. Armstrong (of Auckland) assistant secretary and organiser respectively. This is to give Mr. W. Pry-i* more time for generalship. You'll find nobody fill growl about their salaries and the baoks they are on—not even the average worker. The latter is too busy firing the boss's bullets at Semple. --■''-''"■"«—-■■" "•■■•■<- FT__E funniest thing that has yet ■*- happened at Waihi trfts when the scabs held a meeting, called it a meet* ing of the Miners' (Federation) Union, and decided to hand the Union Hall over to themselves. They alto nominated a large batch of scabs for election to official positions that have never been vacated. These childish little foolishnesses are printed setioully in the great organs of capitalism. _, ,—». . „■„„■ , ■ rpHE fiaxmill workers of Palmsoraton *-*- North district, now working under an award as dbsolete n Pr-f«_s.r Mllli, are rightly bidding for increased wages. They ought to have them, and also better conditions by far than they have. Their award was inftde in 190&—rotten for even that date, but rott-tie. now. It expires next March, and a conference with the" dill _*__.i ii being sought. Fibre prices in the World's markets have had an upward tendency these many months. Let the Flaxies go ahead. V— ■ "Y\T E nad aA* °f rocking laughte* " when, we read in last Saturday's "Times" a loader with these words by Justice Higgini for its tettti "You cannot deal with the conditions of labor without sympathy." Sympathy for labor and the "Times" are as far asunder as were Nero and the Christian martyrs. Not an atom of real understanding nor a spark of real sympathy has the "Times" with the workingclass, for all its posing as a Labor paper (in the hope that the Workers would build it up after tie brewer' had virtually turned it dotm). _ -,■ _■■■■■" ■■•*■"■«■■ ' THE Waihi Borough Council and tha Kaita_g_t_ Borough Council ifi kindred bodies that are one in soul and twin in thought. While the loyalty resolution of the Whyenas has been merely "received" by the majority of local bodies in the Dominion, or "turned down" with cold contempt as the acme of asininity by others, the JUitang-ta, Council endorsed the resolution; and yet, so eager are the members of this body in the service of their country the particular meeting at which they adopted the resolution was delayed for a considerable time for want of a quorum. True patriots they, for be it understood, private biz. comes first, before the country's good. _4__ THE desire to give every possible inch of space to Waihi happenings, oppeciallv in respect to police cases, has iie-i-v'--r.i-ily meant excluding much eke mere or "less ImportMt. Wa oeh.'rti■ ail.--rill understa-B„■.^V'Spftt"*. Wo a. c '"to let the" light—aye, th* searchlight—bcir upon Waihi, and frill not rest irniil V/e have proved to all No* Ze_l„nd the unspeakable nature of the crimes"" of Black Week. We consider that one of th. ''flh-st journalistic .nterprts** known in New Zealand was sendinr Hbll-Ud to Waihi, particularly Wh-h it is remembered that in addition" t<f the Splendid reports H_ 16 fUrni-hinj (_nd h. niust be Working d&f and night to cope with his duties), he is also conducting att investigation, and ptMi'incthe material, likely to enri.h OUr columns arid -tagger our reader.. _■ jji'i-ri --*j ' v - - -'■-" CABLED from Melboumo thai lit fi-S tramway arbitration Casl cbtifis-l for the Brisbane Traniway Conlfiany, addressing the court, said that th_ employers asked .of justice, not IJfflpft. thy. Mr. Justice Hlggms ffipedt "Justice to you means flicf-ting your owfl terms." To another f-Mafk hi* Honor retorted: "Someof the wi_tt_sel wero -tUfi-dV -W w-rt _rif-ft intt a pen like sheep and ask#_ J._dffig She* tions. That is putting '__»_£' tnt» the mouths of men When «_J your mercy." He added that th_ A-Bitritioo Court WaS intettd-d to _-c6uragll hflionism, but the manager of the _ris_ane trains had discredited tihioni-hi, thereby disobeying the Act. Judging from outcorrespondent's report, Justice Higpin-' remarks concerning the "Ittiffing" oi witftfrftß.6 Would ap*p__r to hat* a terj special application to tho proceedings in the Waihi cases arising out of th« sesh o-traoes in November-