" ONLY A SUPERSTITION."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1179, 14 July 1911, Page 4

" ONLY A SUPERSTITION."

A SOCIALIST VIEW OF THE LABOUR 1 Alt 11, (By TdcßrapD.-SDccinl CormpondinU Auckland, July 13. Tho Socialist fraternity had a night out last night. Comrade Savage announced himelf as n candidate for the Auckland scat and indicated the general lofty Socialist contempt of things other than Socialism by the statement that he could see no difference between the principle* *if the Hard and Massey parties. He condemned military training for the sapient reason tluit the workers here had no quarrel with German workers, and therefore did not want to fijrhf them. "As for the Liilwur parly, that is only a superstition," scornfully declared ono nf the "romi'iulw" supporting. Comrade Savage: "Why," lie disdainfully exclaimed amidst laughter from a sympathetic audience,- "they have formed a union for union secretaries, which can only mean the protection of themselves against tho general body of workers."

Another speaker snid that he failed to distinguish any essential difference between Wardisiii and Jlasseyism. They both, he considered, stood for tho present capitalistic sysl'im.

Tho cnudidato. on being subsequently questioned rcsavding the union of lalxiur secretaries, said that he saw nothin;; in if to olvjoel to. "Like the working men, 1 suppose the secretaries are out for a fair day's wage for n fair day's work, and you know, after all," he laughingly added, "the mail to work for is the working man,"