THE MOON DEMANDED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3654, 16 December 1920, Page 4

THE MOON DEMANDED.

What the One Big Union advocates are striving for is disclosed in a cable message from Australia received in Taihape on Tuesday. The Australian Workers’ Union, which' is affiliated with the New Zealand Workers’ Union have published a list of serious proposals which include “a minimum wage of £l2 a week for shearers, together with food, lighting, accommodation. cooks, combs cutters and re--1 turn fares; also £lO a week for woolpressers, and all men working 48 hours a week will be fined £IOO. The Union will abolish political action and adopt industrial action.” Tf unskilled labour is to receive such wages what are skilled engineers and other trained workers to receive per week? And when that question is answered it might be as well to ascertain who will be responsible for paying the wages, and where the money will be found In sufficient quantity, for it is certain that there is not enough money in the woidd at the present time. The incongruity of the published purposes of the One Big Union —the I.W.W. —• fully disclose the utter absurdity and dishonesty of their claims. The leaders know that such proposals are practically and yet they seriously make them with a view to cajoling deent ment into linking up with them. It should bo patent to the most unthinking person that such proposals are only to cover ulterior intentions. Such utterly senseless and impossible proposals are surely an indication that the I.W.W. leaders think the time is opportune for a trial of strength with sane people. When something that is utterly out of human power to concede is demanded it is time to look for trouble; and if this is a reliable indication it behoves every peacefully inclined man and woman to decide which side they are going to range themselves on, whether with anarchy, burnings, murders and massacres, or with those who will oppose orgies of fire and bloodshed. It has been rumoured for some months that anarchists would precipitate a crisis about Christmas-time, and no doubt they might cause a good deal of inconvenience but the greatest loss will doubtlessly fall upon themselves.