COOKSHOP SOCIALISM.
There has been going on for some time a difference between the men and the eookshop proprietor at one of the llax mills (writes a. Shannon correspondent to the Palmerston Times). The eookshop proprietor asks one shilling per week rise on account of the wav prices he has lo pay for food. The hoarders object to this, and quote the award. They do not quote the award about their own pay, which is now about 20 per cent, above the award rates. The writer has a wholesome dread of eookshops. His experience is (hat only about one man in every four is willing to pay for his “tucker’’ without pressure. Amongst the boarders are many Socialists, but apparently their Socialism is “heads I win, tails you lose” sort of business. In other words, when it is raking in Socialism is good, pitying out it is had. And the worst part of all this is that the majority of these men would sooner spend the shilling on beer than give it those who drudge late and early that they might he well served. Socialism is right in theory, but men are not yet ripe for (his reform.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1682, 6 March 1917, Page 3
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198COOKSHOP SOCIALISM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1682, 6 March 1917, Page 3
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