CONCILIATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1750, 15 May 1913, Page 3

CONCILIATION.

Sir,—Are you broad-minded enough to let me preach to you in your own paper? You seem to me too much inclined to condemn wholosalo not only syndicalists and single-lasers, but all their friends. Now, 1 want you to consider the following cutling from the Sydney "Bulletin": — Henry P.: A'oll ask if "a fair day's work' is one that will earn some profit , for the boss"? AYclI, if you don't contrive lo own—either singly or in a co-operative fashion—your own factory, machinery, capital, buying organisation, lying organisation, selling organisation, uliice, bookkeeping system, and all the rest—in fact, if you hire those things from another man, a, fair day's work will probably havo leave some profit for the boss. \Yliat is a fair day's work for a horse? I-. it enough to feed the animal, or i- it supposed also lo cover I lie driver's wage- and wear anil tear nf the earl. Itarne-s. and whip: Till the co-oprra-live horse acquires brains enough to drive him.-elr, he will probably go on earning oat- for somebody. This is -ouml doctrine, and pul in a more convincing »ov Hum any New Zealand editor would tliir<' lo write it, tn- . stead jf assUiniiisJJu£ thu "U.ullcUii'' is

n scurrilous rag, why not accept it as an ally so fur as suits your purpose? Don't you see that cvorv time you applaud such n paper far its merits you give weight I ) your condemnation when you paint out if- errors!' Any fool call see the faults in the "Bulletin"; it takes a wise man to perceive tliat underneath its flippant style lliere lies a vein of very salutary ibought. In the cutting quoted, the edilor is Irving b lead Labour agitators into Ihe right path, without alienating their sympathies. Surely conciliation is hotter than the mailed iistr—l am. eic., AYAIRIMA.