PROFESSOR MILLS’ VISIT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3326, 19 September 1911, Page 5

PROFESSOR MILLS’ VISIT.

CAMPAIGN OPENS TO-MORROW.

Professor Mills, M.A., of Milwaukee, arrives to-morrow morning, and commences his Labor propaganda campaign in the Garrison Hall in the evening, the Mayor presiding. A programme of lectures appears in the advertising columns of this issue.

In a recent speech at Wellington, the Professor said: “There are 400,000 fullgrown, useful men and women in New Zealand. There are 60,000 in labor organisations. There are 200,000' who could be induced to join were the 60,000 already organised once united in a single national body, on a rational and progressive programme. That would mean almost limitless power for the industrial and political activities of labor in New Zealand. With that power the industrial wrongs of labor could be righted and the Government of New Zealand immediately captured. With the power to govern would come the power to control all the resources of New Zealand, and to make possible their use for the common good. Then unearned riches and undeserved poverty would become alike impossible. Then industrial and educational equality of opportunity would speedily 'provide the income and develop the capacity which would make an end oi cfisease, ignorance, vice, disorder, and realise on earth the joy and blessedness of life. This is the campaign for such industrial and political unity for all the workers of New Zealand.” Says the “Lyttelton Times”: Professor Mills has submitted to the Tirades and Labor Councils a scheme by which they might make their full strength felt at the polls, and though there may be differences of opinion about the minor details of the scheme, there can be none among sane people .about its general efficiency. Probably it is their recognition the fact that professor Mills isseeking the representation of the .whole of Labor arid not. merely a section or Labor .in Parliament .that- is leading the Revolutionary "Socialists ■to scoff "at his proposals, but workers who -are able to take a broad view of the political situation will not imagine that they have anything to gain by withdrawing their allegiance from their only stable organisation on the eve of an appeal to. the constituencies. Unity was never or more importance to the Labor Party than it is at present.