RAILWAYMEN, SHEARERS, LIBERAL ISM, AND SO ON.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 750, 24 February 1910, Page 4

RAILWAYMEN, SHEARERS, LIBERAL ISM, AND SO ON.

, Sir,—l wish to direct the'attention?bf 'the 1 Minister ifor: -Labour :-toi a»s case'; Vof shocking 'maltreatment of;;working-meu.-, Ai the: Railway?: Conference'it;, was,' stated, that a callous hireling, dressed in a little : brief- authority as: Minister for -Kaiiwaye; is compelling three railway men. to, deep, in a disused ;;smoking carriage, measuring 14 x 6 xSG, :or 168 cubic' feet per... man.Our Minister,; for Labour, in his humane consideration-for hfcfellow-m'an, compels sheep-owners' to provide/ 240 cubic \ieet. No uoubtVthe.Hon.-J?A. Millar-will lose ho time in. arousing 'the'-' Minister .for Labour to'a sonso'bf.rhis'dutyV -! X' observe,' too, th'at the '.Minister :for Eailways wants; 'railWay ' men to say whether thb'y: prefer the : Court to-the present system'.'-'Of ..using their yotihg: power to.' squeeMuncreased wages out of .the Ministry, every ; .threc,years. I should; smiltt! f'But what ;of, tlio • rest of us who , pay 'these / wages ? Does 1 our opinion go for nothing? . Why. does ho not. ask lis? :.Or;.is.,it'the fact that;increases havo;gone. as far as they can, ami tho.unpopularity.Yof refusing, any more is to be shunted We shall seo. : '' 1 X am' ,grinningf:all'over'to note, that tho hotel employees are going to move the Arbitration Court. Capital! No; class has been so unitedin keeping Liberalism on its legs as our liquor-sellers. And now they, are to > drink '-from this tap. Excellent! . \ ■' ,It is - said that by some, aefcident, Sir Joseph Ward .was, absent from ,tlie Dune-, din-Kitchener; celebration; and yet things, passed •'oKaU/rlghC' 7 ' I "don't believo' it, -i There! .. -\lTitti.-,much..-'pleasure~l.:r present -yourreaders with these few 1 sheaves from "the harvest of a quiet . : ' .■' EYE.' I