CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2005, 22 July 1919, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor-.')

Sir. —In a recent issue of your paper I perused the report of the local Shopkeepers’ Association, wherein it was stated that they had decided to close for two days, and naturally I thought that the majority always rules, and even those opposed to majority rule fell into line. Yet, to my disgust, when having occasion to go down the town on Monday, I had the mortification of seeing the store owned and managed by the workers open for “business as usual,” and when we reflect that the committee of management are also represented on the Executive of the local branch of the Labour Party, it gives one food for thought when we hear them prate their Labour “principles” and Labour’s fundamentals. Yet they refuse to bow to majority rule. I also thought that all employees were asked to observe these days by the Acting-Premier, and seeing that the majority of the people got in their supplies there would be very few crumbs to be gathered in, and further, as the Labour Party stand for shorter hours, especially in regard to the shopkeepers’ assistants, and then to see such an exhibition of that Parly’s “principles” is nauseating in the extreme. And when we remember (bat (be great majority of those “gone west” were members of the working-class, which these blatant individuals are so prone to lecture, and tell them bow great is the interest they evince in (hem and theirs, yet on this day of Pence (which we do not forget they wanted during (he dark days of the war) has come into being, wo find them “open, for business as usual,” instead of respecting the majority will of the,,people and the feelings of those who have lost someone at the front. Judging from the remarks passed, I predict that; the matter will not he lost sight of by the public of Foxton. —I am, etc., DEMOCRAT,