Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1922. LABOUR EXTREMISTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2443, 20 June 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1922. LABOUR EXTREMISTS.

“AN Old Blade,” a Sheffield man who is now a New Zealander, writes to the Sheffield Independent concerning La boor extremists. The basis of his complaint is the deplorable engineering dispute that is now going on in England. “I should like to know,” he says, “how long it will be before the average working man will look ;it things in a sensible light and east the extremist out, for that is what all these labour leaders are, and settle down to work and make an effort to recover the lost trade. Really, I am disgusted with the socalled unions. If I had my way with their leaders I would do what they do out here —put them in gaol for a lengthy period with hard labour.” After a good deal more to the point, the correspondent continues: “I don’t want people to run away with the idea that I do not know what I am saying, as I was in my union quite a long time, and ceased because the unions were going to extremes, and they were very little'use to anyone. 1 only wish a few if these engineers were here, and then 1 think they would alter their views. T have been here a long time and have only 'done a very little because 1 am an Englishman, and an ordinary working man, who is being treated like the majority out here, that is, with disdain, and would lie very glad to get back. I am sure the sooner English workmen cease paying their shillings per month to keep these officials in idleness the better off they will be.”