JUSTICE IN THE WORKS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1926, Page 3

JUSTICE IN THE WORKS.

“On what does authority depend? Upon justice. On the knowledge that the man in.authority wants justice and the square thing. Now an individual cun .make a mistake. If I dismissed a. man before the committee of appeal came into being, lie would go about making a martyr of himself. Now if be tries to do this bis fellow workmen say: ‘Why don’t you appeal?’ If the committee finds that I was in the right in dismissing him, that shuts him. up. If I make a mistake, I want to rectify it, and if the committee finds that the man is in the right, then I want to make amends for my mistake. We have had only eight cases in three years and the system is working perfectly.—Mr Sicbohin Rountree.

INHERITED WEALTH. “ It is difficult, and, indeed, almost impossible, to believe that a naturally energetic man will repress his natural energies, a naturally ambitious man stifle his ambitions, or an inventor abandon the search which is probably the passion of his lifetime, solely because he is not allowed to pass on the money which he may make by following his natural proclivities to his children. It is equally difficult to suppose that he will spend it prodigally, and that much of his expenditure, if he does spend it, will not be entirely benefieient. And for the fear that the dis- • sipation of large fortunes will necessarily leave industry without capital there seems no foundation .whatever.” — “ The Daily News.”