THE DICTIONARY UP-TO-DATE.

Northern Advocate, 18 May 1914, Page 4

THE DICTIONARY UP-TO-DATE.

RED FEDISM'S LANGUAGE. . ' New meanings for old words (singly or'in'phrases) have been evolved by the Red Federation spokesmen. Here are some: — Strike.—rTh e birthright and inalilenable heritage gf Red Federationalists, for which blows were struck at Wellington and Auckland. Law. —The order- of the Strike Committee of the Reds. Secret Ballot.—A tin can of the Capitalist class to prevent the militant,x class-conscious tail .from wagging the sluggish dog. .'■ Class-consciousness. —'Loyalty to ' the Red Feds' paid officials. .Argument.—A ( half brick. "Logic.—Scrap-iron. "■ " , Solidarity.—A gasometer of a posthole, painted the colour of rock. Victory.—Defeat yiewed -through .■ Red spectacles. „'■ ' .. ' "r \ i "Lies. of solidarity, and victory in the plute press. Piute Press. —The callous brutal upholder of murder-minded law, and the vile, foul-moutned oppression of the sacred Red Federation.-. % * Democracy.—Government by the law-abiding Reds. ■ ' - ! ' Terroism. — Discouragement „of "democracy.'-' Work. —The exclusive right. of _ strikers. Wage-slaves.—The* 1 persons; who .> never have a sixpence for the moving pictures, never a shilling for "Tatt's." never a sixpence,, for a pint 'or - a square-face, and only one meal in three days. • ..'■'■ Scab. —Aa advocate of the . secret ballot, work, and other, evils. . ' Scabbery.-r-Impious disobedience of the-orders of" the Red Federation's national executive.. s < ,' ~ Parliament.-*-The puppet; of the plute press and the master class, and ' maker of the lawless law of Waih'i I and elsewhere, and, the iniquitous. usurper of the Strike Committee's authority. Traitor. —A cowardly "■ evolutionary Labourite/who "scabs on the class" — the Revolutionary Socialistic strikemonger. '