ON THE STUMP

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 311, 28 June 1912, Page 5

ON THE STUMP

A VIRULENT AGITATOR. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wailii, Last Night. Mr. King, of the Independent Workers' World, and a member of tiie Federation of Labor, delivered a characteristic speech to the miners last niglit. : His address, though ostensibly dealing frith the contract system, threw sidelights on the method adopted by the Independent Workers' World in connection with industrial disputes. He condemned the contract system as being solely in the interests of capitalists, and exhorted the men to insist on day wages. He explained the Independent Workers' World's tactics of "striking on the job," and gave illustrations showing how drilling machines could be put out of commission in a very short space of time. "The lleefton miners," he said, ''should not have left the mines. If they had' adopted the Independent Workers' World's tactics all the poppers in New Zealand would have been put out of business in-three or four days. Get on day wages as quick as you can. The less you work the longer vou will live. Don't study the boss, but take as many fifteen minutes as you can. If thq worst c-onies to the worst you can go to the beach and live on pipis and fish. Let the capitalist qo to blazes and look after yourselves. Hit him in such a way that he cannot hit back."