[OOK]| <trailer><p> <SOCIALIST, 2 June 1916,> 
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[OOK]| <TOM MANN'S MAY DAY GREETINGS.> </p></headline> 
[OOK]| <p> Greetings to the 
[OOK]| <title "PRE lsquo POST rsquo"> Maoriland 
[OOK]| Worker. </title> Though the war is still raging, 
[OOK]| and devastation caused thereby still increasing, 
[OOK]| and the misery deepening, I none the less, but all 
[OOK]| the more, send May Day greetings to the workers of 
[OOK]| New Zealand. </p> <p> I am full of hope for the 
[OOK]| achievement of great things in a short time by 
[OOK]| enlightened workers. Horrible and ghastly as the 
[OOK]| results are, wickedly wasteful of life as this 
[OOK]| wholesale slaughtering is, it will not be great 
[OOK]| enough to destroy the Labor Movement, it will not 
[OOK]| eradicate the genuine yearning and striving for 
[OOK]| proper conditions of life which are deep in the 
[OOK]| minds of millions of workers. </p> <p> There is an 
[OOK]| excellent spirit shown by large numbers here, 
[OOK]| allowing, of course, for the abnormal situation. 
[OOK]| Not all are drunken with the mad glamor of 
[OOK]| blood-letting, and many are showing great courage, 
[OOK]| and proving to themselves and others how genuine is 
[OOK]| their appreciation of sound humanitarian 
[OOK]| principles. </p> <p> Many of us are preparing for 
[OOK]| vigorous action as soon as circumstances admit of 
[OOK]| it, and much will be done to make conditions 
[OOK]| decent. </p> <p> In my opinion the Labor Movement is 
[OOK]| as healthy as I have ever known it to be, and full 
[OOK]| of glorious promise. I trust that the workers of 
[OOK]| New Zealand and Australia will appreciate at 
[OOK]| proper value the fine opportunity the close of the 
[OOK]| war will present for courageous and sensible 
[OOK]| action. </p> <p> I saw a paragraph in the 
[OOK]| <title "PRE lsquo POST rsquo"> M.W., </title> copied 
[OOK]| from an English paper, that I was in the employ of the 
[OOK]| Government here. Such is not the case, and never 
[OOK]| has been the case. Those who have any thought of 
[OOK]| me need have no fear on my account as to being a 
[OOK]| Government man. </p> <p> I wish the editor, the 
[OOK]| staff, and the readers of the 
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[OOK]| Maoriland Worker </title> a full 
[OOK]| measure of true success. I shall ever rejoice in 
[OOK]| learning of progress on your side, and shall 
[OOK]| continue to do my utmost on this side as a 
[OOK]| fighting soldier in the Army of Labor. </p> <p> 
[OOK]| <TOM MANN,> </p> <p> <Manchester, England.> </p>