FEDERATION OFFICERS.

Evening Star, Issue 15020, 31 October 1912, Page 8

FEDERATION OFFICERS.

SOME NICE LANGUAGE. «. i.) VAIHI ' Octol *r 31. Messrs Webb and faemple addressed a big meeting last night. Mr Webb dealt, at lengtn with the Trades Councils of New Zealand and New South Wales. He said such councils were organisations of "scabbery/' He hoped in time to have only one big union throughout Australasia on-fede-ration linos, and the federation would iight on and on till victory was theirs 'The speaker said he wished he had about ton editors of tho " Iving institutions" of New Zealand" on the platform. He referred to Mr Massev as •'Bosko Bill," and to the Commissioner of Police as "that miserable creature at the head of the police " Ho considered that had the Ward Government been in power tho strikers would never have been imprisoned. "Bosko Bill" had kept his promise of helping the workers by giving 67 free board and a suit of clothes. The speaker attacked the industrial workers of Auckland, who had not contributed anything towards the Waihi trouble and' were doing their level best to injure the federation. Ho also attacked the "professional wowsers" and Mr W. T. Mills. Tho speaker would give half his life to have Mr Mills on tho platform. Not only were the Waihi strikers readv to go to gaol, but would go to tho scaffold before they were defeated. When they had gaoled all the men, the women would carry on the fight.