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THE PUBLIC APATHY.

(To the Editor) Sir, —In your issue of the 9th inst. I notice speakers at the Welfare League meeting regretted the apatfc# of citizens regarding vital affairs. There may be more interest than appears on the surface, only it wants digging out. Personally I am deeply interested, for I have no sugar, and my special brand of tobacco is still unloaded from the steamer lying idle Ln harbor. Why? Because the watersiders are on strike. Whenever I hear of a strike I always ask myself the question whether the dog wags the tail or the tail wags the dog? Tail 5 per cent unionists, dog 95 per cent general public. A bit ridiculous isn’t it? Can the .position be remedied? Certainly, by the 95 per cent insisting that all legislation granting preference to unionist be annulled, and thereby make the genuine working man once more a free man. I do not wish in any way to belittle unionism. I recognise the benefits it has achieved. I knew personally leaders in the struggle for a nine hours a day followed by the 8 hours movement. Those leaders were working men who toiled themselves, not men with an office and good salaries who justify their position by engineering strikes, and whose extreme views are enslaving the genuine working man. Often mien have no wish to strike. Then why do they do it? Ridicule. They don’t like being laughed out. The steady family man may wish to work, blit the young bloods without family ties often boss the show. Counter this by giving every married man a vote for himself, and another for his family. —I am, etc., BACK BLOCKER. Urutl, 11th March.

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Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1921, Page 2

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THE PUBLIC APATHY. Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1921, Page 2

THE PUBLIC APATHY. Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1921, Page 2

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