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TO INDUSTRIAL UNIONISTS

(After reading a letter from. Tom Mann written from Liverpool.) Strange, is it not, that though so mticb agreed On damned Coercion, those who lea J Both Libs, and Labor should pretend to fight, ' And play at politics iv word and deed. I sometimes think the cunning front-, bench men Agree to share the spoils pf- officeivlien Election time comes round they.spread their nets To catch the workers' vote by voice and pen. ' But ne'er believe, you toiling .working- , man, I Shouldering your shovel, pick and dinner-can, | That you and yours will profit by the fate That puts in power the • "Labor' caravan. : . Tor whether Wade be in, McGoivcn out, Or Beeby bleat or Wood do dance and shout, 'Tis you who pay the piper; aye, 'tis you, The worker, they can't do .without. But when, worn out with bluff and hope delayed, You strike, then "Labor" statesmen. doff their masquerade, ■ And side with Capital! For breaking strikes And guarding; scabs, your Ministers are paid 1 Ah mc I if you and yours would but conspire To light Craft Unionism's- funeral pyre, <; . Could you not straightway organise the One Industrial Union you bo much require? A strike might scarce be then a week, a day— For every unionist would then obey The vote to down his tools j and the. industrial cause No scab or blackleg could betray. Wake, for the call to solidarity Rings across hill and vale, from sea to seal And your starved, sweated ••■English comrades point ■; ; The way towards Industrial Liberty! —Dora B. Montefiore, in the "International Socialist."

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Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 43, 5 January 1912, Page 9

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TO INDUSTRIAL UNIONISTS Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 43, 5 January 1912, Page 9

TO INDUSTRIAL UNIONISTS Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 43, 5 January 1912, Page 9

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