WORKERS AND WORKERS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 261, 31 July 1919, Page 6

WORKERS AND WORKERS

Sir,-The article by Morley Robots published in The Dominion of July 2D lust fills the bill. His remarks are assuredly correct. I judge from the experience of many years' manual labour in New Zealand, and several years strenuous toil from Alta, California, to Texas. Your Englishman is a flow worker, and by no means quick witted. Curiously enough. Cockneys make better bitumen than English country folk. The colonial is quicker and often a better worker than the Englishman; butnoithei cornea near the "Yank" of the Western States, anyhow. Handling a 12-inch broad axe in California pine, 1 had to keep up to six scorers ahead of me, each a past master with the double bitt and a juggler from way back. /Twelve hours a day in the redwoods, and on the keen jump at that. Maybe hours are reduced now. Since my young days Ne>y Zealand workers in many lines have certainly deteriorated. .As for J-o'ir longshoremen, they are not workers at all. though tne> rhvme with it. doubtless have their faults but thev do not encourage shirking and disloyalty as our* do. That is why I have erer refused to join one. Now then —-i am, ctc " ' Jl. BARTON.