PRACTICAL LABOURITES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 37

PRACTICAL LABOURITES.

CHEAP TALK IGNORED.

CFkom Our Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, February 27. The Socialistic doctrine propounded by many Labour organisations was considered at the annual meeting of the Auckland Slaughtermen's Union held last night, and compared by one of the speakers with come of our modern sections of religionists, who desired to Christianise the heathen Chinese and neglect the heathens round their own doors. The incoming officers we're requested to ignore theory and cheap talk of universal brotherhoods, and to do something practical to retain the advantage already obtained, to watch that the awards they had got were observed by employers and workmen, and study to better the position of their fellow tradesmen who had been boycotted by the Socialist brotherhood. Their secretary (Mr F. R. Bust) asked the meeting whether unionism or Socialism had placed them in the position they enjoyed to-day, adding, "Nothing succeeds like success, and your success to-day is due to your dispassionate adherence to the laws of the Dominion and your self-dependence, in place of blathering about the brotherhood."

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