NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

The Christchurch hairdressers have just secured an increase in the minimum of wages and a decrease in the hours of labor.

The Christchurch Bootmakers’ Union and the Christchurch Grocers’ Assistants’ Union have decided to affiliate with tho United Labor Party.

Councillor O’Byrne, of Invercargill, was the first man to he elected by the United Labor Party on the Requisition Agreement. He has just proposed a motion; —“That this council take immediate steps to establish a municipal coal and firewood depot.” As a result of the motion the council will request the member for Invercargill (Mr J. A. Hanan) to use his endeavours with a view to bringing down legislation empowering the municipality, it it so desires, to establish a coal and firewood depot.

Walter Thomas Mills will speak at the Town Hall at Miramar on Thursday, July 25th, at 8 p.m. His subject will be “The Masseys and the Classes.” All are invited, especially young men and women who care for better employment. »' * » • •

Women in Denmark, who earn their living in trades, have been invited to join tho ranks of the men’s trade union, but on the condition that they insist oh equal pay for equal work. This is a step in the right direction. May all other unionists follow. » tt » ‘ * • . JUSTIFIABLE BOYCOTT. Ever since they obtained the right to vote Californian women have been making their influence and interest felt, and one important mission the women of Los Angeles have set themselves is to boycott firms making or soiling impure or adulterated foodstuffs. From the board of health they obtained a full list of these firms, and copies have been sent to all women residents with the plea that they will refuse to the men whoso names are iji the’ roll of dishonour. Women of tho Housewives’ Union please take note. **• • •

“Women’s Bights” is the name of a women’s journal to he shortly issued in Boumauia under, the editorship of a well-known Boumanian suffragist, Mme. Janculescu. •- • • • f

Miss Mary Macarthur, one of‘the most noted women social reformers in England still, in this time of industrial unrest, pursues her strenuous labors in striving to improve the ' conditions of women workers inwall manner or trades, though she was married last year ant}, in private life, is the wife of Mr'W. -Anderson, chairman of the Independent Labor Party of Great Britain. Miss Macarthur re-presents--the- National Federation -of Women Workers on the Advisory Committee. She is also the secretary of the Women’s Tra.de Union League, and well-known as a lecturer.

If Labor were given its just share, idleness would immediately cease.

Crime increases as, poverty increases. Poverty • inpreaseS as private monopoly increases. The platform of the United Labor Party shows how to deal with private monopoly, and tbps abolish poverty. - ■ « * • •

“Riches are the portion of the-idle, poverty the reward of the workers.” — Liebknjecht;—Because the idle monopolise' the land, and without the land the worker can neither live to work nor work to live.

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