RE WAREHOUSE WORKERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1216, 26 August 1911, Page 14

RE WAREHOUSE WORKERS.

Sir,—ln reply to "Manager's" treatment of tho above matter, re being a joke, might I bo allowed to ask him through tho medium of your paper whether ho considers the "secretary" insane? Whether he considers the 350 ablebodied men unfit to know their true value? When "Manager" says it looks like a joke, it seem to me as if his education is lacking in common sense. Ho also goes further on the track byslating a lew names, and forms a union. Might I ask him, sir, since when arc 350 looked upon as tew. His remarkable' remarks mako one think "where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise." Sir, he says storemen get .E2 10s. weekly. Might I bo allowed to diil'er, because the average scale is £1 Ss., and should he take the trouble to find out the same as I havo done, ho will find that very few are out of debt and only able to make a bare living. I am referring now to married men with families. Regarding warehousemen, ho has been unable to find fault with, let me state that the majority in (hat grade are receiving 355. weekly, which means, "laugh and grow fat," and bo sure and keep honest. Sir, regarding wholesale prices, suffice it to say, give us Ji'i weekly and you can keep your wholesale prices. Now, sir, regarding preference, when "Manager" takes time aud looks well over this clause, he will find it is one of the. best clauses that any union can give an employer. Regarding having to dismiss his faithful long-service stalf, I should recommend "Manager" to place them on the old age pension, list. Now, sir, I shall conclude these few remarks by stating it is my intention t'o become a recruit' in (his everfaithful, ever-true,. land of workers, becauso they havo good points., viz., strength, capital, happiness, prosperity, and "Manager" may take this as niy final Tcmarfc, that he can never expect tho employer to go on house-tops shouting: "Hallelujah, Glory to our new-born King Farland." Thanking you for the insertion,—l am, etc., ', cnißO.