FEDERATION OF LABOUR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 22 January 1913, Page 4

FEDERATION OF LABOUR.

If ever there wa-s a hope of the Federation of Labour accomplishing a measure of service for the working man. that hbpo has been shattered by the superlative arrogance and claptrap of men of the Webb and Semple type. Not -satisfied with having blighted the prospects of scores of ■ working men at Waihi, these labour impotonts, these professional agitators now seek to uistal themselves in public favour, and to gain a political power, which a few months ago' they despised, at the expense of those who have been loyal to . their party and to the laws of the country. Tt of conrs(>, shcp.v pfe-snmntion on the'parr of Semple and' Wel>l> to endeavour to -induce the sane body of workers who respect the law to accept their proffered advice. For a man to talk of "crushing Massey and his crowd, who were out to smasjli the working-class organisation,'"' is simply ludicrous, particularly after a colleague had just previously stated that "it was not the Massey Government that defeated the workers, but their own sectionalism." It is perfectly plain that neither Semple nor Webb have a rudimentary acquaintance with political economy. The inanities thev utter aro sufficient to make any decent worker blush