Flaxmill Workers Union.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 118, 8 December 1915, Page 2

Flaxmill Workers Union.

[TO THE EDITOR. |

Sir,—ld tbe issue of yoar paper of tbe 3rd of December, under the heading of Pakeno, there appeared ■ teport of a meeting addressed by Mr James Thome, Organiser of the Waikato Flaxmill Workers, at IflcGill and Douglas' mill,. Maungatawhiri. There are mis-statements ia that report which I wish to correc'. The meeting was called for workers at the mill anly. The employers were not invited. At the meeting Mr Thorn dealt with the advisability ot all the workers joinins an organisation that stood to better their conditions, with fair living wage?, better accommodation and shorter hours of work. If that means "down with Capital and up with Labour," I wonld advise the scribe to purhase Well's "Theory of Capital and Labour," ai no doubt he will Kain advantage over bis narrow mind by reading that little book. Again Mr Thorn was not out to enrol members on that tup, as he said when addressing them that he would not take names. Hut since then six workers at tbe above mill have each taken out a ticket in tbe Waikato Flaxmill Employees' Industrial Union of Workers. Tbe tickets were procured from tbe secretary. It appears fronv the misstatements that the writer of them got relief when he could interpret from Mr Thorn's address "down with Caoital and up with Labour." To still further relieve him of anxiety I give him the information about the Union that the membership has increased by fifty since Mr Thorn visited Maungatawhiri. 1 am, etc., JAMES KITCHE, Secretary Union. Mercer.