THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL UPHEAVAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1389, 15 March 1912, Page 2

THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL UPHEAVAL.

<3j r _Tlie romedv for the coal workini manufacturing and industrial unions is Ixst nil who work at a business have i share of the profits-pay all alike b' results both capitalist and labourer. 1 a business was a thorough success, thos' ongaged in it would get larger dividends If all workers were interested financial]: in the results of their work, they wouli do tlieir best, and therefore that busiiies would 1» a large success. The capituiis who invests in labour-employing concern is a helper of thoso who work for tliei l'ivin" If a percentngo was fixed by lav for manufacturing businesses, to be tlv share of the person who started tho busi rVsVand had his cash in it, tho balnnc of profits to be divided amongst thos who did tho work, say, half-share lo (h machinery and the other to tho workers Farmers 'do work on these lines, nnd \v< find in milking herds of cows the famil; that, does the work mostly do so well tha thev save enough to buy n farm, am lh"'ir families learn young to save and b prosperous. If all those who work for : livin" we-e, as it were, part owners, am had the share due to the w should have mi strikes. Workers woul< educate up to understand politica economv «o well that thev would knov hov n 'strike robs, lirst lliemselves am next their country. We would then bo al shareholders in the industrial working n the world. If our reformers would tab the above idea, no doubt Xew Zealaiu would "how the world how to inaki c-uiiliil and labour agree for ever. A' present a. union strikes, and other union; I tonio out on strike in sympathy. Thej ' don'l care what the business they are en «a'cd iii is capable of paying. They wain a riw in wages. If the lmsincss ran pa? more ami hang on until it- owner car 'e',l. the.v gf-t a vise. If llice )-. lint en'-'ijg'ii lo pay a lisp.-end I lie Imsinc-i ilnrs Vint pav, instead of a rite they slo; an industry' which probably, if lmndlec

Biitly, would liavo become a good wage;, iavor. Tho workers must get an tduciiio'n to teach them Hie best method. Vliero a capitalist gets large profits from hi! labour of others, ho should share with hem and not selfishly absorb Iho lot. lo ;et at facts, books inu.-t be overhauled iv experts, who must know all the minor lutails and bo capable of getting right lon-u lo facts. Where men work moles :hey don't strike. If they leave they nusl put as capable a man in their place, tvho gels the absentee's share of profits until lie returns. Strikes starve men, women, and children, stop progress, scare capital away, and waste time and money. If strikers make a payable business slop, the workers arc the losers.—l am, etc., G. 11. JIACKI3XKIK. Oparau.