“ONE BIG UNION.”

Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1922, Page 3

“ONE BIG UNION.”

attitude of teachers implication repudiated. The latest issue of National Education, the journal of the Educational Institute, refers to the fact that the scheme of organisaion proposed by the Alliance of. Labor, as explained by a chart issued with the Katipo, the official organ of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Ass< tion, includes “Education Department,” “all workers employed in the Education Department,” >tnd “Education. Department Industrial Council.” The journal says:—“We are not particularly interested in the movement for linking up the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association with the Alliance of Labor, but in anticipation of the possible inference that the New Zealand Educational Institute has officially associated itself with the inclusion of the Eduction Service in the ground plan of ‘One Big Union’ it becomes necessary to say at once, clearly and distinctly, that such is not the case. “The objective of the Alliance of Labor is ‘the collective ownership of the means of production and distribution and control of all industries by the workers who operate them in the interests of the community.’ The obligations of membership, according to the Katipo, are:—(a) To study it (the alliance) carefully. (b) To speak well of it at all times. (c) To be loyal to decisions once they are arrived at in a con. stitutional way. (d’) To take cognisance of and endeavor to understand the aims and difficulties of the other affiliated organisations, so as to be ready, when emergency arises, to an intelligent vote on any decision of the alliance pertaining thereto. “Let it be clearly understood that the institute is not prepared to subscribe to this fantastic programme, and declines to be drawn Into it by implied suggestions of the kind referred to. ’