To New Zealand Waterside Workers.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 42, 22 December 1911, Page 9

To New Zealand Waterside Workers.

Some Reasons Why You Shouki Join the Federation of Labor.

1. Yon have tried arbitration, and it has failed you. Your wages to : day are on the lowest possible scale; your conditions of .employment axe humiliating in the extreme. 2. Craft unionism is out of date; it can'combat no longer the forces of. the hug© shipping and carrying monopolies of which you are the victims. 3. There is but one remedy—INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM. An army composed of wage-workers, the slaves of industry, must he united into one body. 4. You want a. fighting union. The New Zealand Federation of Labor is such a body. Join it. Get into it. The Federation of Labor has improved materially the conditions of its present membership. IT WILL IMPROVE YOURS. What it lias done for the miners it will do FOR YOU. For 2s per member per year you become live members of this fighting organisation i you have free legal advice upon all questions affecting your occupation. For that sum you have behind you a paper to fight your cause as able as any paper in the Southern Hemisphere, which I-β the property of your fellowworkers. AH expenses of delegates to annual conferences are paid by the Federation. Your comrades of the waterfront of Auckland, Lyttelton and Westport have taken the lead. They have decided for their own independence and for class emancipation. DO LIKEWISE. R. SEWiPLE, Organiser N.Z.F.L.

They who seek nothing but their own just liberty have always right to win it and keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it. —John Milton. Free-lie&rtedaiieiss iaaid gnaciougnesa and an undisturbed trust, and the sight of the peace of others, and the ministry to their pain 5 these. —and the blue sky above you, and the sweet waters and flowers of the earth beneath and mysteries end presences innumerable of living things—may yet be. here your riches. —Ruskiiu