SOCIALISM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 24 January 1913, Page 4

SOCIALISM.

A visitor from California told a Press .reported that Soclialism had made great progress in tlio United States during the past five years, hut had gone hack at once in each place whore it had teen tried. The reason was that failure to make a success of administration put the thinking people against them more than ever, while their own crowd invariably grew dissatisfied with them because they found themselves unable to put into practice the ideas on which they ha* 5 been elected. Labour troubles had been generally acute, and San Francisco'alone- had lost 60 per cent, of its factories. The I.W.W. was regained as a rather bad joke, and it was the commo/n joke that its initials stood for "I wont work." The trmible s v with sectional unions a.s well, and fo:- an example it might be repeated that during the building rush which followed the earthquake ' tine union advertised in the East -that the labour market w«is already glutted, and otherwise made it so difficult for new members to come into their craft that e'ne man had had to pay 2200 dollars' to- gain 'admission', carrying with it the right to earn ten : V Jars per day.