NEW OPPOSITION DISCOVERY

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1758, 24 May 1913, Page 4

NEW OPPOSITION DISCOVERY

GOVERNMENT TOO "COLDBLOODED."

Tho public, which must derive grea(| entertainment from tho wonderful con-* tortious of the Opposition, will, tho Christcliurch "Press" is sure, bo grateful, for news of tho latest Opjjosition (liscovory. This is that "there is something . peculiarly callous and cold-bloodea in tho methods'* of tho Government. Hero is tho terrible indictnicnt:—"Automatio telephones are being introduced to take away the employment of a number of girls wlio depend upon tueir vocation for a slender living. . _• » Then, asain, automatic counting machvncii are bailiff installed at considerable cxpouso in Older to shovo poorly-paid cierfcs out of the service." It sounds like a joko (says tho "Press"), but it is a fact that tho chief Opposition organ has a whole furious editorial about it. Of course it is grossly unfair, because no mention is niadp of the fact that tt» Seddo.i Ward Governments in the most callous and brutal manner introduced li'io/lFf into tho printing oflice, and installed a. multitudo of type-writers m tho Government Departments, simply and solely_ in * order to throw hand compositors and hand copvists out of work. It is no excuse fnv Sir Massey. any moro than for bir Joseph Ward or Mr. Scddon, that otho men introduced labour-saving nracliinor? in the past.