CORRESPONDENCE. MR. T. E. TAYLOR ON SHODDY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 95, 24 April 1911, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE. MR. T. E. TAYLOR ON SHODDY.

XO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Mr. T. E. Taylor thinks it his duty to expose what he considers the evils of the boot trade., but, like many others, he has a very imperfect knowledge of what he is talking about.. Ninety per ennt. of walking boots and shoes have a space between the insole and the outsole that must bo .filled up and made level before the sole is put on the boots. It does not much matter whether it is cardboard, currier's shavings, or pieces of leather that are put in, so as to leve' the sole. But, as I tell people, it does not matter which is used, so long as there is a good insole and good outsole put on the uoots. The best make of boots and shoes that I know of, either here or in Great Britain or America, do the same thing, viz., put packing in between the soles of their boots — they must do it. Tho best way out of the difficulty is to put in waterproof felt, and this, when the public discover it, is thought equally bad, because they do not know better. -If Mr. Taylor wishes to be of service to the people of the Dominion let him (.urn. his attention to the most cruel, unjust, and unmerciful duty that tho working-man Government crushes out of the people on imported shoes. — goods that have never been made in the Dominion. If the people only knew that they are paying from 50 per cent, to 90 per cent, duty on their boots and shoes, they would be up against this socalled working-man's Government. In fact, I do not leuow of any department of the Government service that is controlled with such high-handed tyranny and ignorance as is showi? in H.M. Customs Department, and this state of things has largely come about by the action of the workers' unions. We know all about the evils of capital ; but in the name of all that is good, save us from tyranny of labour. — I am, etc., CORDWAINER,. Wellington, 19th April, 1911.