A GIANT ELECTRIC POWER STATION.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 589, 3 December 1920, Page 1

A GIANT ELECTRIC POWER STATION.

The new electric power station at Glasgow, Scotland, takes rank as one of the largest in the country. It is designed for an ultimate capacity of over a quarter of a million horsepower, and each generating unit—of which there are five in the first half of the station recently completed—will be of 24,000 horse-power. Each boiler is capable of producing 62,000 lb. of steam in an hour. All the latest labour-saving devices for loading coal into the bunkers, stoking the furnaces, and removing the ashes are installed, and a very high degree of economy in the production of electricity on the large scale is assured.

LABOUR TYRANNY.

HOW UNIONS ARE RUN

As we know that very similar methods are employed in some of the unions in New Zealand by the extremists, we publish a letter written by "Painter" to the Sydney Morning Herald, which we think will be read with interest: —

"It is time that tradesmen who do not regularly attend their union meetings are made aware of the manner in which these meetings are conducted. In an appeal to members of the Painters' Union by circular, signed by the president and secretary, the following appeared: Those members who remain away from the union meetings and denounce on the jobs what has been done at the meetings must understand that the business transacted must be carried out for those who remain away as well as for. those who attend. Those who do not attend have no right to complain, but must either endeavour to get to the meetings or else gracefully accept what is done. . .don't stop away from the meetings and then howl about the union being in the hands of a few. If a minority runs the union, then the fault is the majority's for allowing this state of things.' "In compliance with this -reasonable request, I attended, and, during debates, exercised my right to criticise union matters. In opposing the union wasting its time in dealing with what seemed to me, matters foreign to it, such as the 0.8. U., I was immediately "sat upon," and when later on I pointed out that the union, being under the penalties as well as the advantages of the Arbitration Act, was liable to have its registration cancelled if it gave financial support to strikers, the president refused to listen to my plain statement of the position. At the conclusion of the meeting several notoir ous I.W.W. agitators, and a foreigner who is constantly blathering about 'barricade?, bloodshed. Maxim guns,' etc., all officials of the union, threatened, that if I ever again opposed the 0.8. U. at the union meetings, the president would leave his chair and smash iiiy ja;v for u«c! "What an intolerable position! The circular was evidently intended to lull the members into the belief that the meetings are carried on properly, while I am denied by threats of summary punishment to oppose anything this splended example of 0.8.U.-ism is in favour! If the 0.8. U. successors to the 1.W.W,, the Revolutionary Socialists, and, in its turn, to give way to some new fad, is scared of the piercing logic of plain reason and common-sense, it is as well that the incident recorded above has occurred, for it has put myself and others on our guard, and we will devote our whole energy to smashing this crude brute force idea which has little time for majority rule. If they will do this in the dry, what will they do in the green? "The painters of this city must repudiate these fatuous blood-and-thun-der artists by forming a new union, and look after the neglected interests of tradesmen in the legal and constitutional manner that placed the old union in the forefront, with more Eowerful organisations so far as the etterment of our conditions was concerned."