ORGANISING LABOUR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1911, Page 9

ORGANISING LABOUR.

I PROFESSOJft MILLS'S MISSION, .' !»t TStlfidfiAPH— S3 SGt AL TO THB *O6f.] I , AUCKLAND, This Day. * 1 Professor Millts, wiiu is uoiiducting, a , on behalf of tho Labour Party |n Wew Zfealaad, stated in an address to |/ meeting of fci'atnway workers that in " a-he Domifikm there were flo very serious ■ slisputea among ihe Labour people, tfho aisputes th*y Jiad met with were not of long standing, not 4 inherited through Ahfee or fotti' generations, and. wero near ,|nough lidt to forget the ocuusiou of the ' flispute, with the poa^ibilitj* that if the _|»ccask>n was removed th« dispute would he removeiS. The disputes coxtld be |ettled more* effeefcivdy within one ojJ^anisation than within several organisa. r |4ons, and thefb was no justification for . pie postponement arty louget 1 of a single Joint Labour organisation, because the . Ivorking. clauses could, not win by one * |mall section of the workers being ttp Jtgain&ti.the employers as well as against ' . 'Me balance of ali the other working , ilausees. If they got the working classes j , *n the one side, and the gamblers and, |peculaU«s on tn* other, the power of Success would be in the hands of the ftotmei 1 . Mr. Mills dealt with the vaii< ' gma points tftfecting i the Labour move* -|nent at thd present time, and particularly ; forged that the first consideration was to |>rganis6 so that Labour c«.\tifd influence ' ' 'legislation, and/ the Arbitration Court, it , fuecessary, in tho A'mclion that was ia fhe intoreste ol the labouring classes. So jhr an industrial rs^oll ww concerned, ; the people most wstftin the fight of r^ .Celling against the Government if it ! ,■, jiecam© thft instrument of extortion and ' ! |>ppresßl6n. H« emphafiised tne fact that j p> book printed on the science of govern- i ," »ment denied to Che people the right to (fewlfc in correcting abuses if in A last j I'esoffc it was the only reunaiflmg possible j * remedy. "Under the organisation pro* .* --"boeed they would have that right pre- " served at the discretion of a central com. * niittee, but. he asked what was the Use \,bt striking or organising industrial revolt i ■ ivga'mst someone who was against them ' • while they neglected to organise those. t Who were with them? H& contended for * * proceeding peaceably ia relation to inves* , ' iigatkm and arbitration, but in the event ' , m that failing, and tho otht* ftitl* adopt* ' i )ng tmconstitutional methods to '•continue Abases, the workers would, mes£ them in i" *>hat situation,, with the whoie force of • jabour behind them, and th© chance of .' iucc«iss with them.