UNEMPLOYMENT AND OVERTIME.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 31, 6 October 1911, Page 13

UNEMPLOYMENT AND OVERTIME.

Sir,—"The Worker" is good—the best of them all, but I often feel that "Worker" Avriters don't lay sufficient importance on the absolute need for a progressive reduction of our Avorkday, m order that all unemployed may become absorbed, so that Aye may be in a bettor position to make terms. Is it not a fact that ay ages are regulated by the unemployed? During a strike the employers look toAvards the unemployed for blacklegs, and too often get them. The scab is looked upon as the loavest of the loav by organised labor, but just try and imagine the feelings of the unemployed Avhen they see their more fortunate felloAvs putting m full days and' often overtime whilst theycan't get a job. Is not the shortsighted selfishness of the average worker, Avho still clings to the long days of nearly half a century ago, responsible for this breeding of scabs for the use of the enemy?—l am, etc., Wanganui. C. PARKER.