LABOUR NOMENCLATURE.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14841, 5 December 1913, Page 8

LABOUR NOMENCLATURE.

TO THE EDITOR OP "THE PRESS." Sir, —Don't you think that the name] of free labour can bo altered thus — i call it what it should be, State's Labour. In the Northern Counties of England farmers and labourers are called statesmen and dalesmen, but states-men would be a very appropriate name for that labour which, living and labouring under the laws of the State, acknowledging and observing such, also respecting them, knowing that though formed into a union or unions, with certains- claims amongst themselves, still they respect • and acknowledge "their O-erlord, viz., the State and that State Government, and as states-men, not slaves, and also certainly not "scabs." but clean healthy citizens, upholders of law and order against all and sundry. So in naming free labour "states-men," the title conveys a lot and means a lot. Just think it over. I daresay that all employers would soon come to know what a states-man labourer meant, and to vich give preference of employment, and so end a lot of trouble, not encouraging the enemies of the State and the State's order and makers of strife by employing them.— Yours, etc., NOMEN.