BOGUS UNIONISM.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 5, Issue 178, 1 July 1914, Page 6

BOGUS UNIONISM.

J. H. writes from Auckland, that Prig Mas6cy and his bogus unions are making a sophistry of tho proverb, "Tho wages of sin is death." They havo arbitrarily defined "sin" ns "to strike," and the wages "of striking aro death. Do called at the--office of the- new Waterside Workers' Union in ejearch of work, and looking through tho small pigeon hole''in the wall, was' met'by the following interrogation: ■■•■"" ■•■•"■"■. "Well, what i„ it?' ' "Are you receiving applications for 'admission.'to your union?"' 'Yes, Were you a member of tho old' onion?" ' ■-'-"Yes.?"- '■■'•' v <••"■ '-■ ■•■■-...-■■:.;- rt-:: '"What's your -*-nar_eP ■-.■ Married? Are you' an • Arbitrationist :or; Federationist?'''-.:-'- ;•-.-, , v ,'.,i-... . •;,■ .--- "Federationist." ' 'Well, I don't think' you want. to join- 5 * .-'' •'■'■' : "Yes, I do;-I have a wife and children to keep." ' ...' .. "• "What have you been doing since the strike?" "Odd jobs here and there in, tho country." -' . " Why • didn't you. come to .our assistance at the time of the strike?" "Because' I was out with .the majority and I was out on principle." 'Oh, wero you indeed 1" "If you were a.union man and.federated, you would., havo been out also." "Wo are federated with other.unions. Call in to-morrow, We. are having a. meeting of the Selection Committeo to-night." . Next day he called again, and looking through the pigeon hole, . saw a, little, thick-necked man sitting -nt the table:- Having made -known his errand, and given his name and address, this party turned over .a few sheets .of blank foolscap, and, then looked up smilingly, saying—"Sorry, you ..aro rejected!" - This man was a. member, of-tho old Walcrsidcrs' Union for •. nine ' years, was born in Auckland', and- worked on tho wharves for fifteen years.. All tho off on co: ho has ever been charged with was refusing to 6cab on his fel-low-workers, and now th© boss's tools aro empowered, six months after the strike, to turn him down from earning his livelihood. Ho writes that he -is ."still a Federationist."