EXODUS OF THE MINERS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13440, 11 June 1912, Page 6

EXODUS OF THE MINERS.

BATCH LEAVES FOR SYDNEY,

Auckland, June 10. iVIinCTs aro leaving Waihi by the sco.ro. Some arc socking employment iit Auckland, and others are going further aheld, another small batch havi'\<* left by tho Wimmera for Sydney tonight.

cj; ; ~<- I-.'.;'.■ - ;»: ;;i> C'l^^-.'-r of f'-om-laoxce iast- evening, My. A. A. Luc at; -<lho president) said that, during tho past month wo have again soon England upset through labour troubles and • oreat uniw.t is apparent throughout tho world. What might bo regarded as ;* somewhat pleasing ieature in regard to labour matters in Australasia is the Independent Workers' Congress held «e*ien.tly in Me'.bourno when they disoii^sed tlie new unionism and Australian labour problems. Tho report of the #afchormg, which has rocontly come to hand is very interesting and hopeful. As a foreword to Australian workers in a preface on industrial peace they say •fciiat the furtherance of industrial neace isa natrlotic duty just as much as is the advance of one's country. The prevailing methods in the industrial world to-day lead men to fee] that tho much boasted advancement in working conditions, with bounteous # legislative measures enacted to establish industrial 5-eace is but a hol'ow bogey. Militant Socialistic trades unionism, under ths sway of extreme jxilitical domination, is'on every hand giving'evidence of tbr> fi^t of Us inability to bring ajkrut pea™ and contentment to its fflC.m!;- ■';.-:, :<M\\:t,r:)i V.l wWt; Ca-SCS it II •')■>; haou matruineii.Ul in ■ hearing, certain iHiit"H>l fidv>nrv>ment in regard to 'wages, etc. Bo extreme has presuit day unionism become that tho public tifidd.3 it no longer xeprc-K-i'-rits tilio true intoccesfc of the country, and law abiding workmen, but is developing along strange and out of date revolutionary iinas." It, therefore, must com© to tho public as a happy relief thy formation of.* "New Workers' Movement," which i# preaching industrial peace, based on scientific and up-to-date and p&acefur methods, and proceeding under the gospel of the new unionism for a better fooling between capital arid labour, and v/arkm-en and workmen. Tho Au-stra-i'.iui Independent Workers' Federation. ■oha pioneer organisation which has undertaken tlie -big task of forwarding tliija movement, although ni its infancy, lias already accomplished much, and its programme, a-s it becomes wider known i?. sure to receive ready acceptance from th.Q hands of the more moderate- and Lr-oad-minded Australian workers, "ftiuse men arc out against the Soeialis?l3o element which they say is sowing tikg seed of discontent everywhere, and jarring against the grain of every right thinking body of men. It is hostile to cljo principles of our progress as a peopia. It is the creed of fiolfir.hnesa, demanding somothing for nothing, and only really appealing to those who havo nothing to "ose. It is. I say, refreshing t«. find a body of v.virkmon organising ■att such right lines, and it is to be ti-op-ed that tho independent workers, virile protecting the.interests of . the workers generally, will bo able to save •tfap deluded section i'rom themselves. ltn?se men are fighting for the princifl of freedom and for tho pre&ervai of thoir right and their just dues hout bitterness or hatred, and they fctxpe on these line* to carry the contest <*i. . . ■ ■