Auck and for the Miners.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 72, 26 July 1912, Page 10

Auck and for the Miners.

« PLEASURE (?) FOR THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

"Aifli^n"— Tramwaymen—City Council.

Again, "Bravo! Waihi and Reefton." ft'B dogged that does it. Labor is on the evo of one of its greatest triumphs in New Zealand, and will accomplish H in spite of organised scabbery, of misrepresentation, of lying, ami of working-class treachery.

There is a rumor around Auckland ♦hat there is money floating round for My Labor leaders who might be able to induce the men to return to work. 1 am afraid, however, that the bosset iavc made a bloomer this time, and all their money and inducements will most certainly fail in their endeavors to flatter the'miners back to work with the Wab union.

The "Herald," the morning daylic iysterical shriek, and organ of the Cockatoo Deform Parly, imparts the Sorrowful news that the miners have lost £46,000 in wages. And, of course, ■lost ol the Waihi wages comes back to Auckland through the pockets of the lat monopolists and the produce sharks —so it is quite evident the "shriek" lias a genuine conipkiinL only it is not because of the miners who suffer so much as for the pockets of the righteous and virtuous people who own and control the squatters' "Shriek." There is a person who boasts the name of "Artisan" who does the Labor Notes for the "Shriek,' 1 who shifts his convictions and changes bis stop to varying tunes. Not, long ago "Artisan - ' waxed very indignant with the leaders of tho F.L. and denounced them as anarchistical •nd atheist icil, and all the usual palaver and drivel peculiar to the capital-ist-class and their tools. Now, this paragon statc-B that llhe miners arc not solid in Waihi, that they arc disroniented with their strike pay, and then proceeds to attach great importance to the Waihi standing joke known as "Union Jack," who wastes his time and loss's money in frantic attempts to wake an absolute fool of himself in the advt. columns of the Waihi press. 1 think wo can leave "Artisan" and his nomtemporary, "Union Jack," to play their cold-water game, and despise ihem for what they are. I have never ■een a worker yet, however reactionary le might be, who attached any importance to the original matter placed in "Artisan's" column.

There aro 52 in the Tramway Union who won't pay their levy imposed by the union—o2 loyal time-serving creatures, who would, bite off their noses to spite their faces. A pecu'iar and most gratifying feature of the levy was the promptitude shown by the officers of the service in paying their levy and wishing the stricken an early and effective triumph.

The bosses of Auckland convened a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce (appropriate place) for tho purposes of starting a fund for the assistance of that splendid organisation of centipedes known as the (thineniuri hhigiue-drivcrs and Crawlers' Association. Brother Bagnall, tho Auckland road expert, after a trying ordeal, was pushed into the chair. The hard-working bosses, who can always attend a meeting at 2.30 in the afternoon, were in i,I )P majority, but so overcome with horror and surprise at the impertinence and ignorance of vulgar navvies and dirty watersidors, who had actually left their work for (he afternoon to have a heart-to-heart talk with them, that the capitalist-class with the exception v' the ex-mayor, could not make a sane or Bcnsiblo remark for the whole of the meeting.

Tho militant proletariat carried on a vigorous and effective debate, whilst the bosses asked in aivc.vtriekcn wonder, "Who are these men?" Brother Saves tfhockod and angered them when he addressed the assembled congregation as "workers and robbers." The bosses protested—nay, they were insulted—and bo with their virtuous noses high in the polluted air, with their tin-god parish politician, in tin- lead, they abandoned tho situation with their guns spiked, and left the revolutionaries in charge of the posil ion.

Never mind, Waihi centipedes, yon know it was naughty to give the'game away, and appeal to the Chamber of Commerce for assistance, but "we must insist that you don't knock at the front door—come round to the hack."

The City Council here were living a dirty point on to the Laborers'' Lidon ill advertising for men, but (he bo-ns union of 60 ain't big enough to do '"all the work, so the genuine unionist gets Jn's share of the work also.

Hang on, Waihi and Reefton. You are winning. Send in the money, unions. Our fight- and our victory. Let. our watchword bo NO SCABBKHY. Another two months and

Waihi can be won, nil! he won and bold.

On, then, glorious solidarity to ever wider fields of conquest, to ever mightier achievement, building up a mighty international Labor organisation which shall sweep away for ever class rule, class oppression, and class dominationi-which will sweep away the dismal slum, the industrial hell, the potter's lield, and the unemployment pit—when the rags ol poverty and the slavery of ignorance shall fee dispelled by clash and trumpet call of the Social Revolution. Onward, ever onward; upward, ever upward. Hail the prole-tariat!-SPAN W IRK.