TO THE CAMERADOS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 November 1913, Page 6

TO THE CAMERADOS.

M. C; Keape on the strike: — Listen, camerados. You who receive wages and you who do not receive wages. t You who are fat and you who are thin: . , You porters, carriers, tramwaymen, sailors, drivers, coal heavers, french polishers, brass-finishers —all of you— Go on strike.

Your empty stomachs are your affair; your cracked heads are your bu- ■ siness. Follow me; and listen to my language; it is an inspiration; it is hot stuff; it is impromptu; but* good. - Are you iiard up? I am not hard up. J Are you weary ? I can go on talking for ever. Are you afraid? lam not afraid, for 1 keep out of the trouble. A lions! Do you say, "What do we get of this?" Do you shy, "We are full .up of this?" Do you say. Wo have no food in the house?" That is what "scabs" say! Do yon think it matters fiiat my pay goes on ? Nothing irrelevant matters! , ~ O camerados! ' ,

Capital must be crushed; the wages system must be crushed; the "scab" must be crushecT; Massey must be crushed; society must be crushed ; the law must be crushed; the solar system must be crushed. Crush .them, my camerados. I will supply the language. I can supply language of .the best. For you is the honour of crushing the superincumbency of the tiniverso. ' ' How I envy you the honour! I do the head-work only. You are hungry? What is hunger? You are sick of it? What does it matter? Your pockets are empty? But I fill your soul

with language! From now I ordain that all tilings shall ceasfe*: the Christchurch races, the unloading of goodp, and the loading of goods, law, and order, tHe running of the capitalistic ferry boats,, the giving of crecfitlmd the taking of credit, the existence of the felon Mass&y, the wages you draw in your slavery, the capitalistic tides, the revolution of the Mammonistic. globe— All things, camerados— Excepting my salary! —From Christchurch Press.