Labour and Capital.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 254, 8 December 1914, Page 2

Labour and Capital.

[TO THE EDITOR. ]

Sir,—l see by the press that the Right Hon. W. P. Masaey is being made the punch-ball (metaphorically speaking) in the great game uf political make-believe which is at present being enacted, At the same time t*ie great mass of common people is bsing led along blind alleys catching butterfly*, which turn to duit in the hand.

At all those stormy meeting* uf Mr Massey'a the whole onus of the disturbances is placed upon the Red Feds. Any class conscious worker knows that the cause of the workers will suffer with this mode of procedure. But what about the Opposition. Their past record is no better than the present Government. It is not a far cry to last election, when they were put out of office because of battleahlps.'.Conscription Act and titles.JJ'lhis great game of political bluff is for the express purpose of closing the eyes of the common people to tte fact that, Liberal or Tory, they both stand as against the down-trodd«n. The employing class, taking advantage of the bitterness engendered over the recent industrial troubles, gives the pendulum one more swing and the old game goes on as before—the old game r.f Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Anyone who knowi anything of politics also knows which section of the community is the disturbing clement at thuse stormy meetings. These interrupters have no more time for h Socialist than they have for Mr Mabsey, the Tory. It Is war between Green and Yellow, and tho workers bre the pawns in the gamc^ 1 The workers in the older countries arc getting wise to this colours. When are the workers of New Zealaad going to be as "wise and have the power to discriminate between Merit and Demerit, and sort out the sheep from the goats, irrespective of creed. If the Opposition is returned there will be strikes and riots just as before, and wbat will they do. Nu power on earth will atay the uprising of the down-trodden while there are extreme riches un the one' hand and abject poverty on the other. And the great experience gained by each effort will give them a greater tusk to handle, and despite what Sir Joseph Ward and bis religion stands for, the teacher has been abroad and economic education is slowly but surely letting the workers see that there is no way to their emancipation through cither Liberal or Tory politics. They, too, are slowly seeing that he who would be free must himself strike the blow, for the workers' goal is emancipation, even if Sir Josopb Ward will not entertain questions or discussions at his addresses to the common people.—l am, etc , WM. MURDOCH, Paerata.