ORGANISING FOR PRODUCTION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 152, 16 March 1918, Page 2

ORGANISING FOR PRODUCTION

i Sir,—l hope you will allow me to reply through your columns to two remarks made at last night's meeting of the W.E.A. I was too slow then to answer. They are, first, that Mr. Walton's organisation is not based Upon the natural law, but is merely another method of profit-sharing devised to exploit Labour; and next, tho Question put by one who was asked to attend the proposed meeting to test tho truth-of my statements, namely, will we be paid for our attendance? I am not a man of means, but I can reply to both remarks in this way. If the gentleman who wanted to be paid wiff attend the meeting I will pay him £10 if he can prove or produce anyone who can prove, to Professor Hunter's satisfaction, either: (1) That anything has happened in history other than the association of natural forces with one another in harmony or in conflict, or (2) that any power of good has been produced except in mathematical proportion to the extent natural forces in association have secured a common aim; or'(3) that any waste of power or evil has resulted except in mathematical proportion to the extent natural forces in association have pursued separate aims, I may add that the English proposals involve making all employers, or replacing them by salaried managers, 'employees dividing all tho proceeds of enterprises in such way as will secure harmony among them. So that no question of exploitation arises. The matter of interest on capital is solely a Question of what proportion of the proceeds of enterprise employees will agrco to give upon the savings of tho community for the time being. They cannot progress at all without the use of these savings,—l am, etc., N • F. G. DALZIELL (Per A.F.I March 15.