CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 11 April 1911, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

WHY NOT A CHAXOE

{To The Editor.]

Sir, — You state tnat 1 have advanced no reason to show default upon the part of the present Borough Council. I accept the challenge. Th? Council has lost nearly every officer in its employ during the last fe >v months, and it will lose its working staff unless it is precious careful. If representatives of the working class could not do the 'business as satisfactorily as the present alleged "business" Council, they would deserve to ibe—l was going to say shot. Y:r>: need not fear about the rates going up. A working man's Council, knowing the value of labour, , would see that it war: properly employed, and that the rates were not fooled away. I agree with you that there is too much apathy in this election, and you are ( doing good work in shaking things up. But please don't tell us that all the brains are behind the shop counter. I am, etc., WORKING MAZ/.

A WORKERS' COuNCIL. [To The Editor.] Sir, —■ j. was pleased to read in your issue of to-day a letter signed "Working Man," and also a lead-rr both referring to the coming municipal elections. You ask "Working Man" what are his reasons for tho change on the Council? May I say that you have not given any sound reasons why there should not be change. Wages, fair wages! "Work ing Man" passed no remarks fr wages. Do you think the Labour Part.y have nothing else in view but fair wages? I hold that the Labour Party have the interests of not only the puny Borough of Masterton, but of the whole Dominion at.heart; nbt selfishness, but democracy. You have not to turn wholly to the other party for brains to carry on the business of this Municipality; you can find educated, brain boxes, carried on the broad shoulders of the Labour Party —men who have not ociy the interests of a three-acre -section like Masterton. Look across the Tasman Sea, and you find, the Labour Party with brain enough to look after the interests of a huge Australia, and ere many more summers have passed, Australasia, I venture to say, will be one large constituency representj edi by Labour's brains.— I am, etc., WORKER'S FRIEND.