£1000 MANSION FOR SEMPLE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 4, Issue 147, 26 November 1913, Page 7

£1000 MANSION FOR SEMPLE.

A person aigning himself "A Worker put of Work," writing to the Greymouth "Evening Star" of the 15th inst., in which he endeavors to boost up compulsory arbitration •by offering a tirade against the Federation of Labor and its officials, ends up with the. following: "They (the U.F.L. offioals) do not care who suffers so long as they don't, and they will see to that. It is known to you that Semple is building a mansion in Wellington to cost £1000. On any of youj build a hutf" The irony to the above malicious lie is that on the date of pub-lication-Bob Semple was confined to Bill Massey's boarding-house on Wellington Terrace-. The foregiong aro the tactics, of certain individuals who at the present juncture are desirous of poisoning the worker's mind against the Certainly if the above were true Bob would probably be reckoned as a capitalist, and would then be eligible .to contest, the position now held by Mr. Pryor for the employers. Evidently the "Star" must have only been blinking, or perhaps suffering from an eclip3<j of striketis, when it allewed its tail to be wagged by "A Worker Out of Wofl" . -'