A WORKER'S BRAINS EXPLOITED.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 87, 8 November 1912, Page 8

A WORKER'S BRAINS EXPLOITED.

A watersider named Mr. A. Leonard Jones invented a patent lifeboat apparatus by which a boat could be swung out and lowered by one man. His patent was submitted to Parliament

and several naval people in authority, who generally reported well of it as a decided improvement on all existing devices. The usual sequence took place when Jones handed his idea over to a syndicate. The prime mover of the syndicate has gone Homo for a trip to father the patent. "What happened to Jones?" Nothing. He is just as hard at work as ever, aud feels no worse for having had his brains exploited by the proverbial capitalist. Watersiders will remember Jones as a delegate at the N.Z.W.W. Fed. conference at AVellington in 1909 and one of the chief movers in having Mr. McLaren defeated for the secretaryship of that body and the subsequent shifting of the executive to Lvttelton.