A HUNDRED PER CENTERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 868, 15 July 1922, Page 12

A HUNDRED PER CENTERS.

' Dear- I am writing- a few lines to you-, to congratulate you on an article I Mwand read m your paper, dated. March 22. It was relative to the .spoutings of a yowling, howling 'Mui'kan, a so-called 100 per ; center. These -100'-~per;. centers make a- mantired. ; They/ are very ignox ant about anything" outside their own country. It is the so-:called : ignorant alien .that puts .up the.. harde&t. fight to Keep:-up-wages, and th'e rights. for better working conditions.. .1 have. livol her.; for'--15 years,' and they have never won a ' strike yet siride I came. here. The methods that, are used to put down workmen's', movements'; just remind you" of the days, of the Gzar, only they are ■not so open about it It is .astonishing , tc me that sp. many people here'persist m calling themselves. 100 per centers when, as a matter of fact, they are . fast, losing- ' their independence, and,., rights which they had m fprmer days. T.hey are always talk-, ing about the ignorant foreigner wheri, m reality, they are about the most ignorant people I: meet. During the war the Government discovered how." .illiterate, the native-born people v/ere, • and now clubs are being started all over the country to Amer'eanisvL the American. It, was discovered during the taking; of' tlie . draft that- there' were far more illiterates amongsc the [ native-born than among the' so-called ignorant alien's; -At present the e is a Bill before Congress to tax all aliens twenty- four dollars a year sO . that ;> they, can help to pay for. their Mucation, but I do not think it will i ass, because : it seems to me that it is a violation I . of. the treaty rig! jts of certain 'nations.. This is .the onlya nation \ that has not released its wa!r x prisoners. There' is .pz'acticallv no unity amongst the workers here, and, therefore, they can be swayed the way the Fqss wants them to be moved. A section of the Press owned by Hearst has. been preaching a doctrine of. ha-) I tred towards : the British for a numi.ber of years, j. and. the. more ignorant believe that what- he' says is right be-' cause he makes the boast of being a 100. per center. „ I do not write thi^ letter out of any ill-feelin^v but it is .just to let. you know when 1 you hear Another, loud-mouth spouting: a bunch of- - hot-air -do-not •be afraid- to swat ! him. It was found out during th^ war I that/ one m every /.eight could not read and write, but Secretary Hughes said some time ago that . jn& m four either .cannot read or cannot x ' Write. • I. ami a, native of Scotland, and my name is David Farmer. It w.i s through the courtesy, of a New Zealarider that I saw the article m your paper. L.Hi3 name is Alexander. Nicol, and he is\a native of "IJarahaki. I am -a clUzen here, and I. like the country, but cer-tain-law's have been passed m the last few. years ;■ that- tend to take away our freedom, and. 'that is what a nativeborn Britisher will not stand for. One thing here they, demand of i foreigner is. .th.at he • learn all about the Constitution^ a" document -very few nativeborn 100 per centers. ', know anything about. Yes, give these 100 per % centers v a good bowling out! — ■£ am, etc:, V „ .DAVID FARMKR.: Los Angeles, Gal. ■ ■ •