FEDERATION AND LABOUR PARTY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 16035, 16 September 1912, Page 4

FEDERATION AND LABOUR PARTY.

TO THE JtDITOB. g; V] —You publish in voir Saturday's Hue an interview with a W. E. J. Maguiro, in which that gentleman says 111 jT.us.wer to <i statement made !)y Mr &:ii".p:o, and fuily endorsed by myself, that that peculiar conglomeration that stylo themselves tho United Labour Party, is against the Federation of Labour, and that such a statement, if not given the most emphatic denial, was calculated to further divide the workers. It was not in accordanoo with facts, being a, misrepresentation of the taio attitude of the United Labour Party, not only in connection with this strike, but all industrial Conflict!}; then saying that the miners at Yv'.r'hi had the undivided sympathy of the United Labour Party. Now, 1 venture to say my friend Magnire is very innocent, or clso he is like Pip Van Winkle, only just woke up. I venture to say that the whole of tbo Labour Party is against us. The whole six of them havo do:ie all they could possibly do to beat us. They havo iwd dirtier tactics than the whole of the masher class put together. Tdo not mean that they havo met together and drawn up a ofan of campaign, but Ido say that bellind this move to break no the Federation is a master-mind,' smr] that mind can bo traced to the U.L.P. If wo are beaten we wont bare to thank our natural enemies, the employing class; wo shall have to thank thia F-o-c:l ; rd. but misnamed. United La-> hour Party. Does Mr Maauira want evidence? v Tf so. let bim get all the ha?k numbers of tin Auckland Labour paper, all the bad; number? of the Wellington Labour pare, all th?_ Labour columns contributed during this trouble, all written by United Lnbour men. Tf ho is a glutton and wants more ovid;neo, let mo refer him to a statement made bv their chief man. Walter Tliorrias "Mills at the Opera House, Wellington, to a thousand people. Re said, "There was ono thing that wa;; to bo done before anything cise was done, and that was to destroy that organisation .known as the Federation rf Labour, and the best way to do that was to withhold any financial support to them." Someone that the women and children at Yvaihi were starving, and he replied. "That is their trouble, brother." Is this what Friend Maguire calls undivided sympathy? No: the fset is the Unions all over the dominion are supporting us. and the six people that coll themselves the United Labour Party arc aettina left, and they are potting a bit frichtei'-d that they will get found out. Fifteen thousand pounds no to d"te, and the Labour Party thought they could starve us! TCren believing, Friend Maguire. If you aro in earnest you will he with us soon, because we are ■i'drfc. —T am. etc., E. J. HOWARD.

FEDERATION OF LAP OUR to TifH no: i on.

Pir.—Tn reading your leading articles T find that they are written by on;> imbued with two minds—one the mipd of ono seeking to' ha free, with lofty aspirations, the burden of whoso cry is nrogress. Progress, if it means anything." means that we should move in that*direction which gives to every living creature .the opportunity to obtain all their needs to the fullest orient. Ave, it is.a great. 072nd and broad mind; it wills that evil should ha overcome with good. But that will is not free; it is hound. Hero let mo draw your attention to that other mind which" is conspicuous in your article of Friday last regarding the Federation of Labour. Hore we find the slave mind, which forces tho individual to so quickly and willingly serve the_in T tcrcsts of property rights as against tho rights of man. See the littleness, tlio baseness, and withal the fear which leads you to excuse your action behind the plea of tho innocents abroad. The servile creature who wrote that article evidently does not know anything about tho organisation; does Dot know that the nuclous of tho Federation is composed of men and women who are students of economies, and aro thinkers and' fighters who know what they want and have a good idea how to get it. The first thing they learnt was that they have no friends. This accounts for the fear displayed in yo\ir whine of Friday.—l am, etc., W. A. GRIFFITHS. September 15, 1912.