UNIONISM.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1280, 8 November 1911, Page 4

UNIONISM.

Sir,—Your corresi>ondent. "Employer," in Sntiirdnv's • issue. savs "unionism lias destroved the individuality of the workman 1 b.v tlenving him th" ri<*ht to work whnn, where, and for wl'flin lie pleases, 11s long as he please?, Mid for the wages bo pleased" "What a comical notion! The Id°a til at a ninn lias a riixl't to make any man employ him. to work Just «s few hour- fl.* I'f t"-o insist mi nilv w.T'e he thinks fit. 'Why, the extremist Revolutionary Socialist never advance! so yevo'ntinnarv a theory. perhaps, what /'E"'el'iV'<r" i"o.ins is the riVht of n "rominallv fr-« citizen to work for as mnnv hours as his boss pleases to work fr.r any lw>« he can get. and he darned i'fr'l to M. him. and to work on any terms H, n I,ri« ljl,-»s In nanif. Tint if that is u'h it "Employer" means, why doesn't ho tiv =•()'—l arn, clc., _ 1 ' ?. MAT/THUS. fsj r _T(: W ns with much mirth and _a little' indignation 7 read a letter i in vour Saturday's edition beaded Unionism " and signed "Employer. unionism stands for lawlessness, crime, and plun- » to states the budding philosopher "Employer," (mid if ho does not know, who should?). Therefore, without any doubt, it must he so. Mw, Sir. I am a unionist myself, and Employer' s warning has como like a "bolt from the blue," aud lws left 1110 shivering auu

shaking. I fool that now. lam a thor-ough-paced scoundrel, criminal, and I'' 1 "}" derer, and it makes me tor-remble, Bui, dear Sir, not being versed in niatiers -unionistlc, I shoiild foci exceeding übligea to "I'mployer" if ho would let mo. know through tho medium of Tim Dominion". if possible, on what facts if any, li« buses his rather impromptu statements. Thanking you in nntieipali;m,~ I iini. IMI'IuMA 11- "•