A photo with several of the founding Socialist
Samoan Mau Leaders after a meeting
The Western Samoans who had allied to the Imperial German Crown in the 1800's had strong stances in politics, their trade making up 87% of the national exports and several decades of well founded commerce created some wealthy individuals and families. The year of 1914 officially started off the World War in the South Pacific ocean when England used a proxy expeditionary Brit-New Zealand unit to raid a German Imperial Radio station and property at Western Samoa, breaking the Tripartite Convention Treaty of 1899. An Imperial German building was to be raided and a hanging German Crown flag tampered with (not connected to Nazism), but the German Radio station which was the target was swept through by the German employees themselves before the station in Western Samoa could be searched.
The Imperial German Navy then attacked the Imperial British Navy at the "Battle of Coronel" in the open-seas between Rapa Nuian waters and Chilean coasts 1914 November 1st. The German Naval force had stopped first in Western Samoa to try and catch the NZ proxy force but was too late and moved to gather information from within Samoa and then obtain orders. The German force attacked the British at the far reaches of the Polynesian triangle who was led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee and defeated the British West Indies Squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock. Over 1,500 British soldiers were lost in the Battle of Coronel over the Radio station attack while the Germans managed to only to have a few injured. In 1917, War on the open-seas escalated as United Germany made moves to down French and British exploits displaying the engineering feats of German made U-boat submarines. As the World Wars began to sour all relations from all nations, increasing in death tolls, and racking-up horrific history events, the rise of the Samoan Mau Socialist Populists began to sweep out all interests that were Non-Samoan.
The Samoan Mau were a Socialist Party Movement with their own elected leaders and their own Police force, along with military access to arms from factions from both Samoans allied to Germany, and Samoans allied to Britain overseas (Apia Samoans allied to Britain). Samoans allied to the USA were neutral and sent council to meet with heads of Western Samoa districts however there was also an assisting Mau Socialist faction in Eastern Samoa supporting from behind the scenes. The Mau's campaign remains "Samoan Mo Samoa", meaning "The Samoa for Samoans".
Mau Samoa meeting wearing their uniform Lava Lava colors with a
large number of Mau police officers and Mau founders
The Samoan Mau Socialist Movement spread to western Pacific nations (Saipan) with the banishment of several Mau leaders in Western Samoa and later connected with Socialists in New Zealand and Australia. The NZ Socialists also wished "New Zealand for New Zealanders", and Australians the same, to be a nation of their own and not an extension of another nation, used for World War funding. Both New Zealand and Australia were beginning nations and very young and unable to afford the cost of poor relations, already in struggling economy, and neither Australian and New Zealand parties wanted the amount of enemies the World Wars were producing along with its war crimes.
The Imperial British and the Loyalist New Zealand parties including Allied Maori were losing their grip in their own Northern Auckland regions as the World Wars progressed. British Colonies were being policed by the German U-boats, and German allies were cutting off all trade and supply, even eliminating passenger luxury liners carrying cargo, plummeting the New Zealand economy into a harsh economic Depression.
Members of the Socialist Labour Party with Australians and
New Zealand Labour Socialists (NZ Prime Minister Savage front right)
Campaigns of New Zealand Socialist Labour, Maori Unionists, Australian Socialists, NZ Unions, and Mau Samoan Socialists beginning in the 1920s were in sync and Samoan Mau Socialists helped organize communities, events, and political support. The Reform Party had drained the NZ nation's resources to support a foreign World War effort while jobs and it's economy were on the fritz. Unions and other out of work citizens were rioting on Queen's Street and at the Capital in Wellington, and the youth were unable to attend schools for a lack of teachers.
The leader of the New Zealand Socialist Labour Party became Michael Joseph Savage after his mentor suddenly died (H.E. Holland who would have been Prime Minister), an Australian born Socialist leader, friends with Samoan Mau leader Taisi Olaf Nelson and in 1935, Mr. Savage (Irish heritage by birth) became the new Prime Minister of New Zealand. A Social-Welfare system was quickly put in place and the new Government began stabilizing the New Zealand Housing Crisis, first with forbidding tenant evictions.
Chinese Samoan Socialists
In both Western Samoa and New Zealand, Chinese-Samoan and Chinese citizens were known to support both the Labour Socialist Party and the Mau campaigns (some Maori Iwi and Tongan as well). Small business owners helped with supplies and engaged financially against the pro-Imperialist NZ parties.
The Death of New Zealand military at Samoa before 1930
In Western Samoa on December 28th a few days after Christmas, the first instance of New Zealand Military death was recorded and investigated. An affray had occurred between the Mau Samoan Police force during a parade. The Samoan Police force was being used as a private army for the Mau Leaders. Since in Samoa the entitled elders ran the District, policemen could be easily badged and made official and the Mau had created an unusually large registered uniformed authority for the region they administered. The Mau Police were unable to be dispersed or harassed under any known law of the times but their power was never abused, only to protect and serve Mau causes were they rallied. Both the Mau and the New Zealand Military Police (who were allied to parties in Apia city), were approved by different influences in the Faipule Samoan Government.
During a Samoan Socialist Mau festival welcoming allies a Mr. Smyth (friend to Olaf Nelson) and a Mr. Hall Skelton (The Mau Lawyer in Auckland) two NZ Sergeants working for the British trespassed on the parade and attempted to arrest a member of the band, spotted by the Mau Police, who intervened. The two NZ Sergeants who intruded were then arrested by the Mau Police, one a Sergeant Mr. Fell, was hit twice on the head, knocked out by the Samoan Police for resisting arrest. The second Sergeant a Mr. Waterson, resisted and was held in arm by two Mau officers, then he struggled to Fell's side.
At the side of the Beach street a Colonel Lance Downes had under his command a unit, which on his whistle hurried to the arrest and there the band stopped in its playing. The Mau Policemen and youth then surrounded the New Zealand military force, beating them overwhelming, some NZ militants instantly fleeing who then began to be stoned by the Samoans.
Witness at Court: Statement by Corporal Cahill 1929 "While we were being forced down the lane, I saw Constable Abraham behind a post in the lane. I was trying to dodge a stone. As I looked at him I saw him crumple up. His back was towards me but I was under the impression he was firing his revolver. There were a number of Samoans in front of him, they were throwing stones in the lane. I stopped when Constable Abraham fell. I could not go back because the Samoans were too strong. I retreated with the others. I did not see Constable Abraham again."
The NZ military unit ran for their lives firing un-targeted shots with revolvers, several NZ militants were caught and flung down, beaten, uncounted and considered injured or dead, who were pushed into an alleyway of the beach business stores.
Historian "The worst part is the incompetence of the NZ military at that time. Not only did they start the fight by interfering, but then they lost, got beaten-up by a Samoan parade and some Mau Samoan police, then fled in retreat to a Samoan police station, British dead found in the alley during their retreat. And after they found refuge in a Samoan building, they then finally fought, but what did they do when they fought? Did they win a straight honorable fight and gain some dignity back? Oh no..no..they then actually fired on the wrong people. That's how incompetent they were. When they finally stood ground, able to hold still from their panic-state, the NZ militants fired on the wrong section. They fired on the Samoan section helping them, the ones who were trying to stop the maul on the station. The court hearings are still public records"
The most famous Samoan-friendly shot that day was Tupua Tamasese III a man whose last words that day became apart of his political legend, asking Samoa to be at peace and to not seek revenge. That same year after his passing a Samoan women's Mau branch was created with their own units in campaign and Mau Samoan Socialist campaigns grew stronger in New Zealand.
Socialist New Zealand Riots: Capitol Raids at Wellington
In 1932 "Auckland Queen Street Riots" emerged with Union Trade force which included Kiwi citizens (NZ Irish, Scottish, and English Colonials), Maori, Samoans, and Tongans, and the movements spread through-out the Northern cities. During this time of New Zealand economic chaos the Maori and other Pacific Islanders (Samoans and Tongans) were community networked with ground-roots movements and with their community-based aspects of their culture intact, and were able to keep above water in the recessive economic times. Meanwhile foreign and even Kiwi communities who's livelihoods were completely and fully dependent on employment, organized in mass to regain some sort of financial stability. An estimated over 20,000 organizers individually began protests in Socialist movements. New Zealand History recalls a Socialist organizer named Jim Edwards, who spoke to the crowd, trying to calm the gathered citizens during a protest who were on the verge of being an angry riot due to continued state in-action. The Auckland police then struck down Mr. Edwards, the only friend of the police Magistrates, at which time the protest turned full mob. New Zealanders began taking over store-fronts and beating back the police who held road-block positions. The rioters then swept through Queen street, a street named for it's Imperial builders, and the Mobs smashed all businesses and anything relating to the Reform Government, carrying signs that said "Workers of the World Unite". Mr. Edwards was labeled in Loyalist Crown news media as a "Communist" even though he was a working man Unionist trying to provide for his family. A community woman Mrs. A.M. Cassie was also arrested and charged for helping Mr. Edwards.
The Waikato Territorial troops were then called in with no regard to public safety, and new riots reorganized on Karangahape Road. The Socialist mobs made their way to Dunedin and took over Wellington (The Capitol of New Zealand). In Wellington, a photo was taken of Police on horse-back attempting to disperse the protesters by plowing their horses into the Socialists and Unionists hoping to trample down those in the center and break their lines. The media called the protesters "The Unemployed" portraying them as a menace and a dismissive burden.
Citizen protests of Anti-War and Socialism - led by Aotearoa
New Zealand Unions and their allies
The Socialist Invasion of New Zealand
In 1935, New Zealand was taken over by the Socialist Labour Party Government, led by Australian, Maori, and New Zealand Kiwi Unionists, connected to Mau Samoans. The USA also at that time in the 1930s did not support Imperialism or Communism and did not help Imperial Britain against Germany in 1940 in World War 2. The USA did not join the League of Nations or ratify the Treaty of Versailles 1919 and only after the attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor by Imperial Japan in 1941 did the USA join overseas World War 2 efforts.
Last campaign of Defamation Demoralization & Racism
During the Maori Wars 1840-1860s when it was clear that a new peace-pact would eventually be signed to the Maori King, British statesman Hon. Mr. Cardwell attempted at creating a racial war, a white-NZ law that ignored the Allied Maori, his attempt failed but it would not be the last case in which British would try to create racial division and racial political bridges. Almost 50 years after the WWs, and with Imperialism being replaced by Parliamentary Reforms who's common laws govern Britannia and Scotland, a campaign to rewrite, demoralize, and divide Socialist and Democratic Socialist efforts, shown to be a desperate last act in which they produced new views on the outcome of WW1 and WW2, taking advantage of Freedom-of-Speech laws, laws that were originally made to protect the common man voice.
In the late 1900s, a few British authors attempted at creating a racist "Black Slave history" in the Asia Pacific, calling the Melanesians a Black people instead of recognizing their genetic roots in the Asia Pacific as South Asian. "Thousands of years of Melanesian culture in the Asia Pacific region, yes they are Asian as is the Middle-eastern and the Southern Indian, but not too a foreign racist, they only understand their own ignorance, thinking they are of some unearthly stock and better than their fellow man over simple skin color", said at an Asian Pacific forum. A Black-birding history of the Pacific spread in 1997 targeting Melanesian people.
An Influenza epidemic mentioned in the "Demoralization Campaign against Samoan Socialism" is the 1901-1918 spread, which killed over 500 million Europeans in 6 months, so many that only an estimate is really put forth. However the European losses are not elaborated on in Anglo-New Zealand historical accounts of the times, and is a separated subject. The New Zealand ship infected their own Samoan allies (The APIA Samoans), and not the Samoans allied to the USA or Germany.
In the year 1995, an argued race baiting history title of "Black Saturday" was used to describe the deaths of New Zealand Military in Samoa 1929. The Black Saturday writings from British New Zealand writers attempted to create the image that "Europeans were white united Colonizers", cherry-picked subjects and white-washed of any conflicts relating to the World Wars happening within European homelands.
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