THE FEDERATION OF LABOUR TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 10

THE FEDERATION OF LABOUR TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Tho Federation "f Labour apparently worries you.' You evidently don't like it. A casual observer would say that you hated it. You don't liko its name, its paper, its officeia, its aims—in short you don't liko it a little bit. You fill yards'of your oditorial space with fearful onslaughts upon it. You howled tit tho toilers to beware of it. You call upon tho employers to light it. It makes you angry, rftirs you up. Yet all the time iL is growing, growing*, your mental hys- ■ tone* noLwitlu>taiidut(f. As a member ot the- federation I wnlcoiuo your fuliniualiotis. I should be sorry to think thufc thb day would ever at rive when tho fulsome flattery of tljo capiluli.stic Post would bp t-howpced upon it. A labour organisation that whin tho ayplntiso at a capituliatie «heot is v. deelininjr •factor in working-class circles. The toiler who thinks with the cranium of a, capitulißt scribe is a vanishing quantity. The daily Press is the enemy of the working class. Labour knows it, and seeks not it 3 approval. The daily Press is a commercial enterprise, founded by commercial men, and lights on bohalf of iU foundeis. It is conscious of ite own interests. It is das* conscious. Rapidly is labour becom. ins likewise, sneer as many will at tho term. Tte tecrcfc of ull j;«.ur hostility .to

tho fwdoration can bo easily summed up: It is winning victories tor tho working j class n,nd working-claas victories can only be won at tho expense of the capitalist class._ That is the secret, and all tho satanio ingenuity of journalism cannot htdo that fact from tho working class. — I am, etc., P. H. HICKEY. Wellington, 23rd April. [Tho foregoing^ is characteristic of Mr. Hickoy, whose thunder much wakod the welldn during tlio tramway strike, when he was a member of tho Strike Committoo. Mr. Hiokoy's mistake is that ho confuses "Labour" .with "Federation of Labour."]