Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-12-27
Workers of
the World
pourRMAKER SUCCEEDS LABOR CRUsHER
As PREMIER.
By Peter PoOer

!
John MACEDONIAN. boile-maker- is now prime
,,tu.ster OF New south waIrs. the mott popn-
lots state hut in Australia
The lIbaral-corservntive fusion party mss
inst suffered a bitter defeat. and the labor
party has captured the third Of the SIN stateS
m the Australia federation, .besdcs controlling
the national government.
Via Europe We learn that not only has the
majority OF IS liberal-conservative members TO
- labor neInb in parliament been wiptu
out and that the labor party has gained CON
,-ol NV = majority OF two. but that Premier
Wade has gone down in the crash ana Fni
onit. likely be showed into political oSscuriy'
Wade Vas responsible for the most drastic
anti-labor law ever enacted in Australia. Last
wear. during tie miners strike, Wade gagged
the minority and forced through a law fimilar
Ia the ordnance that exists in Los Angehs'
which prohibited pcketing and CLASSIFIED any
meeting OF wOrkngmen to discuss strike OF
boycott as a conspiracy. A dozen men, ineluu,
Ing Harry Holland. secretary OF the soclaiisf
partr. were thrown into prison under sentences
Of SIX TO eighteen months.
Protests went up all over the country ana
Wade was made issde in the national cleo
tion last April. which resulted In. the most
swearing labor victory that has ever ben won
Il
care his impending doom by pardonng the I'm
DIT soned wcrkingnen and promising 10 recon'
struct'' the labor laws.
But the labor PEOPLE ridiculed the prime
minister's change Of front, and fought him all
the harder Then Wade adopted a radical plat
form. and with his big majority behind him.
believed that he would be able 70 overcome
the storm OF opposition. Yet his desperate
POLITICAL play was in vain. and Wade and his
fusion party we're driven from power p.
LABOR ADMINISTRATION MAKES MONEY
FOR PEOPLE.
The financial bill brought forward by the
labor party in the national parliament of Aus
traIia will become law on the first OF the
vear. IL Is unique legislation In British his
tory. When the labor party won in the ma
tioual election last April the defeated liberal
conservative leaders gloatrd publicly and an
mounted that .sOcislistic" legflation would De
blocked for want CT funds and that the laoor;tes
would be embarrassed in the matter OF paying
old age pensions.
But Fisher the miner premier. declared that
the government was going To make money
iust the same the bankers made money
based for the most part upoa noth'ng ont tne
credit Of the people. and NOR over that the
Australian commonwealth was going 10 ENJOY
a monopoly OF that sort OF thing. 1here would
be no moTs G hShin1 h ~ counters
PREMIER Fisher said the government would
issue $25.OO0.OCO OF Australian notes ON ~
Ter cent gold basis thus leaving 50 per cent
fiat or credit money. The bankers stormed
theft newspapers rared and the fusion poiitl-
clans predlcted a panic and all sorts OF calami-
ties The common people applauded and said
Go 10 IL r. sher." Then the premier struck
an awful blow at the opposition By coming
forward and announcing that all bank notes
would be forced out OF existence by the I'M
position Of a 10 per cent tax 10 take effect on
Mgrch /, 1911
Saw. The BANKERS became as tame as LOT
Of Kittens and announced that they were ready
10 eat out Of Miner Fishers hands. They
said they would aceept the Australian notes, or
rag money. aud hoped the government would
20 forward with its public works and enjoy
years OF long life and prosperity. Do you
know why the bank gents saw a great new
white light. Because they realized that Fisher
snd his staIwart labor colleagues were not a
lot OF political puppets TO BE- bribed or bull
dozed and that IL they started TO boycott the
governments money the government would boy
cott them and drive them out OF business.
Sir John Qnick. OF the few aristocrats
sim left In parliament. showed the fear In
banking circles when in the coarse OF a melan-
e,loIv speech be bewailed the agitation that IS
sweeping over the land ''aimed at the amt
ilat,on OF private financial institutions and the
establishment OF a government banking SYSTEM
The. bankers have decided to try 20 be good. to
prevent the starting Of state bank. The
laborites make promises. -.