GOT TO WORK HARDER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 9 June 1914, Page 3

GOT TO WORK HARDER.

MR FISHER SAYS SO,

According to the Minister for Manne (Hon. F. -VI. B. Fisher), unless New Zealand workmen speed up, they are going to wake one morning and wonder what lists happened. Mr Fisher, in his address at Eastbourne on Thursday evening, said that people talked about land settlement, industrial unrest, and other matters as the great problems which faced the Dominion. But in his opinion, one of the '■Teatcsl. if not the greatest problem, was to find a way of dealing with the people who wanted to make the most money by doing the least possible work by getting as much as they could by giving as little as they could in return. Some trades were languishing behind a high protective harrier. Why was the boot trade languishing'; Why could the American come into the Dominion, buy hides, take them back to America, pay 'freights, and make boots that were sold , here more cheaply than the New Zen- | lamj article? "I'll' tell you why it is," said Mr Fisher. "The American Vorkcr works 'harder than the New Zealand : worker, and is able to turn out more in a given space of time. Ultimately, 1 ' believe that the New Zealand workers will have the fact forced upon them. They will have to speed up a little, or the businesses they depend on for their present wages will close down. Labor will then wonder what is,up against them."