UNITY OF LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 211, 5 September 1911, Page 5

UNITY OF LABOUR.

Mr. H. Scott-Bennett and Mr. M. J Savage, as representatives of the New Zealand Federation of Labour, laid the aims, objects and claims of that body before a large and appreciative meeting of the Auckland Tailors' Union in the Cook-street Hall last night. Both speakers met with a cordial reception, and the principles of industrial unionism were, judging by applause that punctuated the speakers' remarks, heartily endorsed. Questions were put and answered satisfactorily, and the speakers were accorded a most hearty vote of thanks.

Latei on Mr. Scott Bennett and Mr. W. Parry (president Waihi Miners' Union) represented the Federation of Labour at a meeting of 1H Drivers' Union in Swanson-street. Mr. Scott Bennett urged that the day for sectional unionism had passed for ever, that sectional strikes were doomed inevitably to failure, thai the unions of the working class raust if to be of any service 'whatever, keep abreast of the development of modern industry, and the Trade* Union must give place to the Industrial Unions. He declared that in one big union lay the only hope and salvation of the working class. The machinery for that big union was already in existence in New Zealand. The New Zealand Fed. cration had as its ultimate aim the obtaining of the world's wealth for the world's workers. Whatever need there might be for slight reorganisation in its machinery, its objective was sound, the men most closely associated with it were sound. It recognised, and was based on the class struggle. It was a fighting organisation, and there •was not the slightest excuse for the formation of any other body purporting to have a similai objective. Mr. W. Parry explained the constitution of the Federation, briefly pointing out what it had already achieved, and urged the drivers, in the interests of themselves and the class to which they belonged, to show their solidarity by throwing in their lot with the Federation of Labour. Considerable (discussion followed. A cordial vote of thanks was passed to the speakers, and the meeting terminated with hearty cheers.