THE FEDERATION OF LABOUR

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22508, 16 September 1938, Page 15

THE FEDERATION OF LABOUR

TO *BB BSROB OB TBB PBEBS. Sir,—As a loyal member of the National Party, Mr Hiram Hunter, I suppose, now subscribes to its aim to abolish compulsory unionism, or union conscription, as he calls it; but it would be interesting to your readers to know whether he has always held this" view. I invite him to say. “The acquisitive instinct is common to us all,” says Mr Hunter. Well, nobody can object to self-revelation. Having been so long in the same company, Mr Hunter might tell us how many more, like himself, have this belief in the ranks he has so lately left. Thousands of unionists are entitled to know. What 9 hopeless outlook! Has he never noticed the hundreds and thousands of people who are humbly prepared to serve the advancement of humanity without hope or thought of reward, and to stand also the showers of kicks and blows, until vindication? The comradeship which exists in the ranks of labour, illustrated by, say, a bucket collection on the wharf for a worker who has struck a bad patch, the “taking round the hat” on the relief works job for the mate who has gone into hospital, has no meaning for Mr Hunter, who says that the Almighty has decreed that personal greed transcends every other impulse and every law. —Yours, etc., C. F. SAUNDERS. September 15. 1938.