Let them Starve.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 2 September 1890, Page 2

Let them Starve.

When two people fight it is just as well to leave them alone, and for our part if (he Union S.S. < Vmpany a d the Maritime Council conM arrange the fight so ns to inconvenience each other only, they might keep at it as long as tin y liked. The struggle, at any rate on the part of the Maritime Council has now developed into a most unreasoning quarrel, and they unhesitatingly inflict untold misery upon persons who are in no way concerned m the dispute. We tiust the public will krep awake to the fact that it is the Maritime Council, in their enileavmirs to gaiu their end, who are inflicting ihis inconvenience and loss, as the Union Company are doing their best to carry on their trade despite the obstacles placed in their way. Those who havft now to pay an increased price for their piovisions, who have to fo-ego certain purchases on aeconnt of the enhanced price, those who have lost their wages ow'ng to the disturbance of trade, have only ths Martime Council to blame. To obtain a temporary advantage the head of tl.e labour unions are prepared to ignore the claim oi all other labour, an I as freely consign them to want and starvation as they accept their wages. This action is taken under the hope that other labour, diiven to desperation from want of work, wiil blindly join with the Unions. It will be a sorry day if " free " labour <loes anything of the sort The acti nof the Maritime Council in creating this mischi f in New Zealand, ov^r no point on the question of pay or hour°, is mo>t unpardonable, and it is imperative that the Coluuists resent this domineering to the utmost of their strength. To show what misery Ins already Keen accomplished we wiil repeat the news of the pist few days. Jn Wellington provisions have rispn, btoremen ha* c had a week's notice, two sawmills, and a fellmongery closed, the wool en mill working on y ha'f time, besides othor in<iustri- s crippled by want of coal and moans of export- In Patea the meat preserving works are closed. In Timaru, the flour mills, owing to the difficulty of shipping are closing. The Railway workshops over tije Colony are to work only four days a week, and the services on all the lines reduced. In Westporc the railway is c osed a together. The count y settlers are feeing it, as the buy ere for the meat companies are refraining from purchasing. owing to the doubt ns to whether the works can keep open. Unionists had better not rely too inueh on outside assistance, and it has be-n found, in the case of tho locked out miners at Greymonth, the support coming iv was no hing like what was anticipated and hai only so far been five shillings a week. Th s niny affect the struggle, though the needs of those, thrown out of work by their action, was not worth a thought.