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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 41, 15 December 1911, Page 3

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The British Coal Minos Bill Jias |>assed its third reading in the House ©f Commons. A clause/ was added dis»lknving a pit-brow boy, girl, or woman fco lift or carry anything so heavy as ft© be likely to cause injury. The clause introduced- by the Rand Cb-in- , inditee prohibiting tlie employment of women or girls at the pit-brow was ©omitted. ; Tlio West Australian Miners' ;!P!bthi-sis Commission's report recomniends the compulsory medical examination of miners before employment, the medical examination of all miners ©Wry six months, that miners medie&ily rejected bet sent to a sanatorium »t the State's expense, that the ►Miners' Claims Board find employment Jot medically rejected miners, that an Insurance Trust be established by miners, owners, and the State, each coQiti ibuting a third ot the premiums contribution : that miners receive free medical attention and medicine. The report has been tabled in the Legislative Assembly. Mr P. Snowden, 31.P.. speaking at e> (Socialist demonstration at Bow, London, said that the contributions to the Dalional insurance fund from the poor ■would be tantamount to increased taxation, and result in deterioration of ifoc physical condition of ine workers. The 40 Labor members of the House of Commons sent £50 each to the ..treasurer of the party, representing their salaries for the quarter , from 'April to June last —salaries which were' (paid before the payment of members &i the House of Common® came into operation. The- Labor Party thus luckily comes into-an unexpected £2000. <ar ' C , SB A press mes-sage from Sydney states tihflb the Labor daily paper has materialised into a company, and has pur.©hasod land of 80 feet frontage to Pitt Street, nenr Jlathurst Street, at £330 g>er foot, lluiidirjg commences in Jan.u-a-xy. In every department of our -daily life, social, political, educational, and eoimnercial. the worker Is placed at a By a strange obliquity of Liiu mental vision of the body politic ■ftShe valuo to the community of the man who does the work amd makes the iweali.-h is never realised, and his rights &is a human unit of the nation and as a oit!*:en are always disputed. The old traditions of patrician and plebeian, ownc and siavo, baron and serf, are dperprtnaiccl h\ the more modern term an sister and man, and the unfortunate '"man" is in the eyes of the ruling •olass? only a man in name —he is a mere errancy-making machine whose functions Sai life is to grind out wealth for the tenjr>ymen.-t of the master. —Adelaide Daily Herald. '■ THE EPIGRAMS OF Q. Presumably the person who first com,prrrd t life to a game of cards was thinking of all the shuffling there is in Hie, world. Some people- are • perpetually what iftiey shouldn't even he occasionally. "Christianity is imnmtable," a fervid orthodoxist once said to iuo. '' In its nmtableiiesa." I replied. Give a girl a bad name an.d kill her. When an agitator isn't a Socialist, iie isn't an agitator. So say the bourgeoisie, if not openly, then by implication. "Circumstances," said Napoleon, -'I , taake •circumstances." "Napoleons," eaid Circumstance, "I make and unjoiake< Napoleons." The working man does not attend ©Imrch because to do so is against his »el ig ion. The nation makes the great man, not fine great man the nation. The great man. is analogous to a manufactured (article, whose utility or artisticness is arot credited to itself, but to the skill 3oi : the artisans who produced it. "With most men truth is that which jp.a-ys. ■ AH that our universities are capable Vsi doing is to make a man imagine jfch&t he's educated.' Very often in being patriots to "our 'own country" we are traitors to humanity. liove knows no law; neither do {$rusts. Barren pockets and baronets are peldons associated. 1 The- capitalist is a bigger fool than |m> looks; Whilst the laborer looks a

Tli>3 New South Wales Legislative Assembly decided, by 31 votes to 20, to include domestics in the schedule of the Arbitration Bill. A deputation from tlie. Adelaide United Laborers' Union, which- asked for an increase of wages to 10s. a day for three tiuih-crmen engaged in concrete work, was turned down by Mr. Verran, tlie South Australian Premier, last week. Mr. Verran said: "If you had a secret ballot there would not be so many strikes." ■ ' * * * In the Ta&manian Assembly Mr. Earle, Leader of the Labor Party, opposed the travelling •allc-vance of the Governor being included in the Estimates.' He declared a State Governor was unnecessary, and that the proper link between the State and the Throne was the Governor-Genera!. If the people wanted pomp and show in their ceremonies, let them pay for it. It was only a tin-pot aristocrat that wanted "kow-towing" to as Governor, or who desired to travel to this place or that.. The ■ Deputy-leader of the Party declared t'ho post of Governor to be a useless excrescence. The item was struck out by 14 to 9. At the inquiry regarding increased rents one witness said that Irish landlords were saints compared with Sydney landloxcls. He knew small places where the rents had been doubled, the ton ants being compelled to submit because it was impossible for them to do better elsewhere. * • • - . We must try to thank and feel in company with the best heads, and tlie best hearts. We cannot cultivate our minds or feelings by means of the second rate; noihing short of the best is of any avail. But we are too inclined to accept the commonplace, and our heart and mind become readily hardened to the beautiful and the perfect. Against this tendency we must fight.—Goethe. * * * . Swansea wateirsiders showed their solidarity by 'Stopping the whole work of the port owing- to the attempted landing of scabs during a sectional dispute = The shipload of scabs was taken to sea, and work was resumed. * * * ■ Mr. Breen, secretary of the Otago Trades Council, in his half-yearly report, has the follow-ing to say in reference , to the attitude adopted by the ultra-Socialist section of the tirade union movement: —"For some time there has been growing in our midst a party which is decidedly antagonistic to the. Trades Council and the trnde uniion movement. Its influence is being iait ha. the Noi-th Island, aai<i is

beginning to make itself felt in Dynedin . Tlio ideals of that party are beautiful, and point to a promised land where there will- be peace and plenty for all. The preachers of that party, however, seem to think that the only means of rea-eh-mg the promised land is by wrecking the Trades Union movement, and making every unionist a class-conscious Socialist There is not the slightest need for all .this bittreness, as there is work for both the Socialist Party and trade unions in fighting the enemy—-capitalism. If the Socialist Party will devote all their energy in fighting that enemy, and leave- the trades unions alone, they would make more headway, but if they think it.their duty to fight trade unionism, then I am afraid capitalism can wink the other eye and fed safe for many years' to come." This is the dreary drivel we are getting weary of. Industrial unionism seeks to replace trade unionism, and do all the good that the latter did, and much more also. Capitalism 'has nothing to fear from the trade union back numbers, but it has a wholesome dread of industrial unionism. '• * • * COO'S OWN PREMIER. "Pigmies are pigmies still though perched on Alps." Wo were first in the van of the nations, So they said, and our hopes weire elate ; That the/irrmis of the long generations Of an ideal and happier State, Might attain here some little completion In a land that was original j T et. But laugh, .weep, at Time's strango ixuition, "Sir What-d'ye-call Ward, Baronet." France, mad once with wrongs of the ages, Hor blood like tie ocean waves poured To wipe-from her history's pages All record of kingling and lord. The Atlantic Republic, the Free Land, Tolerates no vile nickname as yet. Good God! while our little New Zealand -.-Struts out with its toy ''Baronet.' , Oh, Honor! sublime Elevation! Hail Fungus of Lords! Autocrat! Be perpetual through each generation, "Tliy species 'mongst Blue Blood and Fat. If the Old World regime of masters And lords and their victims and slaves, With famine and strikes and disasters Sweeps the wretched by shoals to their graves. Thou hast won for thystHf some distinction. In extending the-infamy yet. Weep, Democracy, weep .thy .■extinction. . Hail S—r J— G—. W—d, Baronet .1 >. -— A. F«jT©il.

The unskilled American negroes in the south of the United States can earn more and live better than the skilled British artisans. a « # Court life has its agitators and rebels. King Alfonso has ordered his aunt Eulalia, who is.domiciled in Paris, to suspend publication ' of her book, bearing, from a radical feminist's standpoint, upon Socialism, religion; and marriage, placing character and honesty foremost. Eulalia persists in publishing the book,, and declares that she will relinquish court life. The divinity that doth hedge a king is wearing very thin nowadays. f> • # The following specimen of'journalese on stilts is from the Peton-e- "Chronicle" and is a splendid example of the art of ■writing bad English: "New Zealand has readied a topsy-turvy stage of .development. The choice we have is between a heterogeneous mass of ■ fortuitous atoms known as the Ward Administration, and a higgledy-piggledy conglomeration, of incongruous particles label ling itself the "Reform Party." Ward has been so long in office in one capacity or another that be has become a Tite Barnacle, - with trimmings. Massey, politically, is merely _ a howling dervish, a shriek, an expletive, a note of oxclamation ! Ward is an oracular enigma, whooping from the bone pile of a half -for gotten past. Massey. is the cacophanous mouthpiece of the sphinx of Squ'atterdom which sits watching with melaaicholy eyes the reluctant sunset of effete conservatism." The N.Z. Labor Party's official or-, ,-gaiij the "Voice. of Labor," is playing a very muddy game. It denounces the N.Z. Socialists as anarchists, and prints several columns of what reads like a call for police action against the Socialists. A paper that resorts to the villainy- the "Voice of Slobber" finds itself obliged to get down to wouldn't seem to have much of a case, anyhow. The Revolutionary Socialists of Atistralia and New Zealand do not accept the anarchist philosophy, and this the enemies of Socialism knowj but their paid prostitutes of journalism and their paid pimps who sometimes masquerade in alleged working-class organisations, don't hesitate to make the charge at the bidding of their masters. However the efforts to sool the legal bloodhounds on to the N.Z. Socialists will fail as signally as the Azeff plot failed in Sydney. —"International Socialist. ,, ■«• * • Mr Bonar Law ; the new leader of the British Opposition, says that the recent upheavals of Labor have been caused , by the poor feeing led to expect the golden age. He says that social reform without "tariff reform "will only lead to more miGmployrmmt <whl misery. ,.