The Mighty Atom

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 57, 12 April 1912, Page 6

The Mighty Atom

IT. Kennedy, ex-secretary Inangahua .Miners' Union and first Federation Treasurer, bus been selected by the workers of AYaihi to contest tho Mayoralty on their behalf. Sntre bis arrival in AYaihi, Comrade Kennedy hii.s been a most active and a.ble lighter lor clear-cut working-class principles. We sincerely trust that the class-con-scious toilers of the goklfiold will rally around Herb. Kennedy and put him in. • • * Ramsay Macdouald, the British Labor leader, says that courts of law have, by their decisions of the last tew years, convinced Labor that society is against the unions, and organised Labor can get iio justice from tine law. • • • The Rev. Leon Linden, of Aurora, Illinois, suggests tliat as soon as a man is Harried a email hole should be punched in the lobe of his left ear as a token of his matrimonial slatus. Rather rough on the benedict. ♦ * * The Spanish artist Sagrista-, who was condemned to nine years' imprisonment for a cartoon in honor of Ferrer, writes to friends that he hopes to be released soon. A petition on his behalf was sent to Alplioueo, signed by ninny international artists, including 17 members of the English Royal Academy. • » • M. M. Orosoff, a. scientist and author of international fame, has been condemned to a long term in the military fortress of Schncsselburg by the Russian Government for publishing a book on "The Stars," wherein ho expresses some radical ideas. The fools who try to stop tho advance of human thought will soon be made to suffer the penalty of their vain stupidity. * * • Madame Sorgne, who has been so active in Scotland during the last few months, was described by the public prosecutor at .Milan as "the most dangerous woman in Europe." Daughter of Durand de Cms, the French philosopher, and granddaughter of the Russian general Cripkoii, she is that anomaly, a revolutionary aristocrat. Her undo. Istoinine, was Admiral of the Ualtie Fleet. During the last 15 years she has b<'<'ii the .storm centre in revolutionary strikes and polities all over Southern Europe, and played an important part in the recent Transport AVorkors' and South Wales Miners' striken. In her orations to her Scottish audiences, she counselled them to take direct, action and (ling the b;illot box k> the winds, to brush aside the priests, parsons, and ministers, they being only there to chloroform the people and in the pay of the capitalists. She urged l;.er audiences to make their own paradise here, and to let the next world tak<> its chaix-o. All "leaders" she wanted handed: and, further, whenever the workers saw am one with aspirations to leadership, they were te keep their eye en him., as he was dangerous. She insisted on lilie sympathetic strike, and urged her hearers not to allow their children to join boys' brigades or boy scouts, as their object was to fire them with tho military spirit. Workers should do all in their power to keep their sons from joining the army or the luii'y. and preach anti-militar-ism, for if they did not, some dny— if they worn out on strike—tho sons they hud so trained would probably be ordered to shoot them. In her final appeal she counselled her audiences to strike hard and to strike often, the only way to victory and tho milleniuin. « w ~ M>. and Mrs. Tom Blondworth were entertained by members of the Socialist Party while in Sydney en route to Europe." Mrs. Hloodworth, in replying to the good wishes expressed for a'happy future, said: "I ara sure wo shall be happy while we aro married, for when we' are no longer -happy we shall be no longer married." * • * Tim McCarthy, an ox-member of tho Inam_'a.hun. Miners' Union, writes to this 'office- from Sydney, X.S.W., expressing his sincere thanks to his comrades of Reef ton and district for tlie sum of £i 3 18s. 3d. raised by them to tide their comrade over his recent illness. Tim's many friends will bo pleased to learn that he is now rapidly recovering from the attack of eutr-ric fever which laid him low, and is sanguine of soon, being restored to h,'s usual health. « * * AYe hoar from the, secretary of the AVailii Socialist Party that H. E. Holland, of Sydney, will arrivo in New Zealand next week under engagement to tJie Wiiihi Socialists. * * The Countess of Warwick, known as the Socialist Countess, and a member of the Social Democratic Federation oi En-land, has been invited to visit the, Vnited States on a lecturing tour. She hr;K been offered an engagement to deliver a series of 26 lectures throughout the United States and Gun.da during a period of about two months. The Cc.uiit-.-is has been offered £.'i'J(J l*r lecture. * * * Dr. ITarv, y AY. AViley, Tinted Slatofi Government'food expert, predicts a revolution by underpaid and underfed Americans." ''The time is rapidly approaching.." said Dr. AViley, "when tho wealthy will face mob violence on the streets. This situation will bo duo to t)he fast approaching day when working, people will bo deprived of means of .subsistence. Every day the position of the working-man is becoming worse."