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Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1918, Page 8

"I believe,'' said Mr Marshall at the Farmers' Union Conference, "that the 'go-slow' policy of trade unionism is really the cause of the increase in the cost of living. When a smaller amount of labour is given for a sovereign, it follows that a sovereign will purchase a lesser amount of the rasult of that laliour. This process is going on continually, and the puhlic is very slow in realising the fact. Take this example, for instance: In England it has been found that inexperienced girls, engaged in making various parts of shells in munition factories, after a few weeks' practice, are producing more than double the quantity that 'skilled' trade unionists were producing in the same time. That shows what the policy of less work and more pay is responsible for, and this is exactly what is making living so diflicnlt, and is the cause of so much unrest. I hope to live to see the day when trade unions will take the opposite course—when- their leaders will try to increase the usefulness of the members, and by night classes, lectures, and by example, make them more efficient -workmen. Unless a man takes an interest in his work he is seldom contented and never rises above his fellows