A LABOUR CANDIDATE'S VIEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1234, 16 September 1911, Page 3

A LABOUR CANDIDATE'S VIEWS.

At Island Bay last night, Mr. F. T. Moore, Labour, candidate for (ho Suburbs scat, in the course of an address advocated an industrial workers' co-operative-scheme, whereby workers who are dissatisfied with the hours of labour and rates of pay under which they are employed, may call upon tho 'State (o advance the capital required (b take over tho ownership, and run on their own account tho particular industry in whjch they aro employed, so that such workers shall reap the whole fruits of "their industry after payment of interest and sinking fund on the capital advanced by the Slate. Iho speaker said that tho Stato now finds practically the whole, of Iho money for a worker'who .wants a house of his own or a. farm to work on his own account. Consequently it is but an extension of these very "principles to apply them to industrial undertakings. Tho railway and tramway servants are. not satisfied Willi their rates of pay, and he submitted that to satisfy them they should l>o allowed to lake over ilie'e public services or pay much of the interest ami siiikitis fund charges, m> that the whole earnings would then be available for the workers thai run these service?. He was suro that the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants could manage the railways far better than was possible under political control, and tramway men could also better handle tram services than municipal councillors. Tho primary bread) meal, and butter industries he would also hand over to their respective trade unions to manage and control on their own accounts, and he was confident that as one union took over and successfully handled its particular branch of trailo other unions would do the same, until the supposedly Utopian dream of a co-operative commonwealth was practically realised. In conclusion he said that until this scheme or >omo snoh scheme was adopted there would b= no rest from industrial strifo in Ihe world, for the only way to appease tho demands of Labour was to give the worker tho whole fruits of his labour. When ho was put into a position enabling him to get this, ho would then have to be content nidi' hi 9 lot in tho world, but while ho saw anybody making a dividend out of his labour, lie would fight and fight, to the injury of tho community.