LABOUR LEGISLATION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 187, 10 August 1901, Page 3

LABOUR LEGISLATION.

TO THB HDITOR. Sir,—l was very gl*d to see in last Saturday's issue your articles on 'current legislation. Most of us 'ire too busy to wade through the uaultiit!<k of Act* brought before the House lad so very often miss measures 'which vitally affect our interests. You have takon a step in the right direc tion, aud I arn sure I have the majority 'o: your readers with me in asking you Jo continue the articles. Things are •Joining to such a pass in this colony '•hat everyone who uses his influence •to put ths brake on the present wild measures which bid fair to herald in a 'poriod of dopression and misery, is '" doing hia -country's work." I h*ve 'bsen watching your papur in the hope that someone would take up the other '«ide of the question and support the 'tneasures which you condemn, so that '•We might see what can be said in their •favour, but no one came forward. ■Why is this? Are there no supporters : ot the proposed labour legislation in this district, or is it thai the truth of .'Jour statements cannot be denied ? •Iu urging us to combine, Mr Elitor, Jon struck tho true solution of our : prenent difficulties and dangers. Let every farmer throughout the district •join she Farmers' Association, and lei the townspeople form themselvos into »Q Employers' Union, and then let the two combine and uke steps to try and prevent measures inimical to their interests from becoming law. So far the Labour Unions have had all the pay, and have UGed their combined influence to forward their own interests, '3o matter what tne result might be to th* rest of the community, while the fegi of ns have sat round and growled ■»Q<l then let things take their course. Let us wake up and make our influence felt; we can do it if we will, and if we don't, then all I say is we deserve & H we get and more. You know the old saying, " He who would not when he may, when he would he shall have &ay." Uuless we take energetic steps Enw, we shall give out the truth of *h»t saying when it is too late for us 50 do anything and ruin etares us in 'the face.—l am, elc, Liberty.