GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14517, 7 May 1913, Page 7

GENERAL.

HICKEY AND ORGANISED LABOR

A DOUBTING THOMAS,

The following is from the correspondence column of tite Sydney Bulletin : "P. VH. Hickey: This paper is gratified "to be told, in reference to its views ,that "th|* full force of organised labour" is now guaranteed under the "basis of .union proposed in March last. Bkit it is far from being convinced. When' news of the reconciliation was. suddenly' fired into the clouds it was centred in the garish illumination that . * ./the. working class and the employing class have nothing in common. . . . Between these two classes a struggle |jp.ust go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wages system." Some of the Bulletin's doubts will be removed when, the fragmentary sections of the party decide melrely to construct a simple and effective political platform on common ground, and giet to work. The join of taking 1 possession of the earth is vague and indefinitely and likely to take a long 1 time, even if nobodyelse objected. You further, complain: "As to miltarism and conscription, we here (JM.'L>.) know, that infamies perpetrated in the name of defence, and are not going t<) sit dumb thereon even to win the Bulletin's apjprov|al.'' Mrs.t of all you /have neither militarism nor conscription; but if it be the infamies of compulsory citizen defence , tliat you refer to, you may easily ascertain' the mildness thereof compared with', the infamies that recently befel Korea. where citizen defence was not part of the programme." —-