THE EMPLOYER'S VIEW.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 30, 19 February 1937, Page 4

THE EMPLOYER'S VIEW.

_ ut have listened many, many times to Socialist oratory ahqut 'fche Capitalist' and his wieked plotsj learning from these orators, as X sat there, just what my motives, my objects, my plans and crimes were — for I, as muoh as anybody perhaps, am 'fche' Capitalist. But, however ignorant I may be of certain subtle points of the Ma^xian doetrine, there is just one subject in the world upon whioh I happen to be better informed than those orators are: that subject is my own plans, objects, motives. And on that subject, upon whioh, in the nature of things, I mus.t know more than they do, they talk, if you will allow me to say so, the most piteous fustian and blatherskite. What they are searching for evidently is an outlefc for emotion. But the cost to their own movemenfc of their emotional entertainment is a high one. It so twists strategy and poliey as to sfcand in the way of oo-operation whioh would be of immense serviee to the workers; and it adds enormously to the resistance which Sooiaiism has to encounter."?— An employer, quoted in a House of Commons speeoh.