THE METHODS OF CAPITAL.

NZ Truth, Issue 144, 21 March 1908, Page 4

THE METHODS OF CAPITAL.

\Aa >an instance of how the Capitalismtic class will distort facts, to suit their pals, occurred m 'the recent sitting of the Arbitration Court m South Canterbury, when the case of the tanners and fellmongers came up. > The demand of the Union was Is Gd per hour for pelt curers, classers and sorters. Mr G. Bowron, of tlie.fum of Bowron Bros., about the methods of which this paper has had occasion to talk before, stated that the price' was excessive. The men could really only be classed as general laborers. The price he naid his men was 8s 4d and 9s a day. Now, Mr Bowron didn't explain to the Coart that he gave men from England £4 a week for doing this class of v'ork — • a limited number of ihiini— and put other men on at the v/i^c Ii« stated to assist these men, <n- m ether words to pick their brains ot the leduced rate. It was a very clever move, no doubt, and quite in' keening wi>Mi ibis .firm's methods cf dealing, with employees,, but why did not Bowr.on explain that the men to whom lie paid 8s 4d and Os a day had been taught their bus'nrss by £1 a week men. And by what reasoning does Mr Bowron make these men "general laborers"? He j-houH liave been severely cross-questioned on this matter.