LABOUR DIVIDED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 209, 2 September 1911, Page 9

LABOUR DIVIDED.

* BETWEEN SCHE^S. vjaB BW FURTHER action. «. W«r Zealand waterside workers' on their sixth day's quite half the week has ffUen up in discing what t,e do in regard to the two SFwAenw nnjv before th- workers "?5L Zealand. "fae quescion was again °f22ht no this morning by Mr. G. *"Sf (P«ea • v,ho moved: -That a Trades .„., Labour <tf seconded by Mr.

I 5 Voyce and Reed .LytMtnnl Jfciffongly o?;-'- ■' the mot.-n. and S d that it was in the best interests Waterside Worker,' rederat.or, g remain affiUatod to the Trades Council

■Federation. Air Canham (Auckland.., in supportSi; the motion, said the workers were tod of the Trad,- and Labour Council and the sooner the waterLe worked affile-l with the federation of Labour the hotter. M --on as Mills lei: these shore, he p ediet*? that the Trad- and Labour Council Federaf.nn w.v.ld revert to the oW useless, lethargic condition wmch ted always characterised its existence in the P 2 - 5 '- , , Mr. Schofield (Auckland 1 contended the motion was to he supported because the capitalists were driving the workers to seek a newer and stronger organisation.. The Federation oi Libour th* outcome of education and advancement in Socialist ranks. The Trades and Labour Council organisation was of purely a stick-in-the-mud nature. The Leaker went on to say that he had ■fforked and educated himself out of the ruck, and during his '27 years' advocacy of the socialism of industries he had Buffered both imprisonment and privation. He was convinced' that the class jmiry proposals of the Federation of isJtonr offered the only way out. MB Morris (Dunedin) contended that es the Federation of Labour was the weaker party, it should not dictate to the stronger party—the Trades and I/ibour Council. It was undesirable thai the workers should have too many irons in the fire, and the Socialists, who Sacked the Federation of Labour, should j ie satisfied wit-h the comprehensive unity scheme which Professor Mills had drawn up. and which the Trades and Laibour Council had adopted. The elections were approaching: nofhing would please the capitalists better than to see the ■workers still divided at such a time. He hoped to see the weaker party seek to join the stronger. Mr. Boardman (Auckland) urged that though the Federation of Labour was only half as strong, numerically as the Trades and Lahonr Council Federation, it was far more active. Mr. T. Smith (Wellington} contended that by turning a snmersnult from one federation into another they wrre not pring to bring about unity of labour. He complained that delegates iad not been givenVji free hand in dealing with the question, ns several union*, including Auckland, had threatened to secede from the federation. Mr. Smith concluded hy aaymg that the conference would have been over bv now if it had not been lor the -obstruction tactics adopted all through on tHs question. Mr. Bennett (Auckland) said there had been a food deal of double-shuf-fini? over the whole nusiness. The motion was ultimately defeated fcy thirteen votes to eight.