THE STRIKE AND THE I ARMERDS.
(To tho Editor.) Sir,—l should like to make a few remarks ro tho waterside strike, which lias been paralysing business of late, consequently doing 110 end of injury to the country at large, First jet. me thank your paper for tlio ablo manner you have treated your readers in publishing so many letters in connection with tho strike I hope everyone-of those readers will appreciate many of those sensible lotters, more especially those signed "A Wife and Mother" and "A Farmer's Wife." All colonials in particular mast appreciate such opinions as expressed by them, and one can seo that our women are heart and soul in Sympathy with their husbands. Noiv, just fancy the backbone and sinew of the country being called ' scabs." Do tho workers of this Dominion think they are gentlemen, while we farmers are pure wasters? In this case, in tho last few strikes tlio workers will find they havo not scored, but ai'o one worse, instead of one better. Let mo givo not only the waterside workers, but also tiieir leaders, a little, sound advice, which is this, they must not think because they have had all their own way for somo twenty years past that they are going to continue another twenty years in the same direction. Oh, dearj 110; history for generations past repeats itself, and it is now high tiinc, to put it mildly, we had a halt, and sure enough we havo it, and we must strive to keep it; not only to keep our homes over our heads,- but also to provide tho necessaries of life for our so-called watersido workers. Just imagine such high-toned individuals allowing themselves to bo fed by what they term the "scabs" of the country. Ono cannot realiso that our men can be fo short-sighted as not to see that whatever wages they got, whether it be little or much, it must be earned by the farmers, before thoy can get it. No-v, I think if the labourers and their various unions would put up as their heads good solid, clover men, instead of agitators, loafers, and wily-oily windbags, they would fare bettor. They then would know when they had a real solid grievance, and feel sure that when such a case, was brought about, that instead of the farmers being against tbem, they would find just tho reverse. Farmers are not, and have never been, an interfering lot, but when, pushed into a corner they are like the bull, they show light, as the bull. does \yhen pressed tight; they do, and always will do, as they aro now doing, they clear tho road, and tlioy will do it at all coats. In conclusion, may I say that many of the watersido workers did not know when th'ey were well off? My partini; advice to them is, think more aud work harder, and they will be more contented in tho end.—l am, etc.,. A HAWKE'S BAY FARMER.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1906, 14 November 1913, Page 10
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498THE STRIKE AND THE I ARMERDS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1906, 14 November 1913, Page 10
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