ADVICE TO WORKERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 3 December 1912, Page 4

ADVICE TO WORKERS.

In an artielo from the pen of the Hon J. T. Paul, which appeared in our labour column yesterday, the workers of the Dominion were urged to inako themselves.' as efficient as possible, and to increase the productivity of labour rather titan diminish it. This advice is so sane and sound that wo cannot allow it to pass without giving it our complete endorsement. Whatever may, be said to the contrary, the tendency among certain sections of the labouring class in recent years has undoubtedly been to restrict the output by giving a minimum of labour for K i maximum of pay. That this tendency is moralyl and economically wrong is admitted by ■all honest workers and thinkers. If this country is going to bo other than o sparsely-settled, exporting territory, it will only bo by individual effort to revelop the industries to the very utmost. If every man were to dr

best, wo should not have to set up Royal .Commissions to investigate tho problem of how to make living eheap"i-