MUST DESTROY WAR

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 10

MUST DESTROY WAR

'i .10 sJiii f or # Sir, — Kihtfly aiievr jne. space for a iew comments on tfio gre.at turmoil the ovOiid Iβ passing through under the competitive capitalistic system of production and distribution. Our worker ? imrailes who bled and died in the "t;ufc great war in the fa'r-fiung fields

■>:i , Flanders iand Gallipoli—Hth'rfr Bi-ajrcs afo hardly green, when the diirk.ciouds of war are hovering ivev ay again, While the hearts oJ the people are still sore for their lost β-ij d. loved on>es, what do wo find to*By7 The Western capitalists snarling at their Eastern fraternity over m&erals that rightly 'belong to the people of the East. And it they tlewja«r, wo workers will have to |Uj the 'fa'each, and the strongest and have to shed their blood, and ibi» not in the cause of the poor, but for ike rich who will do as they have ilVrdys Cone, reap the harvest of war profite.

■fycrkers, have we not come to Ltio pacing «•* the ways? Pause and con«idsr that the i>eace and happiness of the T?orli ii*s <at your feet. You have Cbfyr 1# I>e UNITED. Let us be up W& dbine, aad extend across the etas ,tbV frateriml hand of friendJ-iu'p to ilie, work#rti of the East and the Wotld. and Ist them know that our ijftteresite are one, bo they Black or mite.

Our mission is peace, as workers we Btiffer most through, war. When the WorfeeVs realiee they are sheading tonoc*nt blood war will cease. In all the capitalists or flnan#»6!rs havl failed to keep tho peace of ttie "erorid, nothing then remains but for Labour to take up. the great charge aiid put the world's industrial find political house in or*er and hand down to future generations a world #prth living In and establish eternal pUcee in the world. Then will we Valise It in its true meaning. ''The ferotherhood of man." "The Federation of the Worlds. ,, —A. 3T. CORRIE, I>argaviUe.