ASPIRATIONS OF LABOR.
','WHISTLE FOB . THE BOSS TO WORK."
(Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTOxX, this /day. several members of the conference of the Federation of Labor addressed a meeting at the Opera House last evening. Mr Webb, president of the Federation, said the Arbitration Court had failed to better materially the conditions of the working class of this country. Workers of all trades must organise into one great federation and own industries and manage them m their own interests. ?If they had brains to run lnachinery they had the brains to own it. -■'■•
Mr J. King (Auckland) said the working man worked for nothing, boarded himself, and paid his master for the privilege. Tlie time would come when they would have a four-hour day. "Somed ay," he said, "we will blow the whistle for the boss to work."
Mr Semple, referring to the Waihi strike, said those wage-earners had to go into the bowels of the earth to produce gold for absentee shareholders who had never seen the country..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1273, 27 May 1912, Page 5
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