THE TOWN CLERK AND THE WORKERS’ UNION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 252, 6 September 1902, Page 3

THE TOWN CLERK AND THE WORKERS’ UNION.

Needles.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —It has been decreed by the “ Waimate Workers’ (?) Union ” in solemn council assembled, “ That the offices of Town Clerk and Fanners Union secretaryship must and are hereby ordered to be severed, and shall not again enter into the unrighteous possession of one and ti e same person.” (A glass of water, please.) Under this Bab our beloved suffering Charles is to be lopped of one of his modest, meagre sources of revenue and doomed to cast about for something which this “ Power ” may hold to bo more in keeping with the principles of equity and justice. This unsophisticated youth illadvisedly grasped beyond his rights. What a commentary unm youtbf d sense of justice. What grievous notoriety i< given to the disposition to tread down the weak and climb over the oppressed. The decision of the Union is just and right; of this there is no doubt. It would not otherwise have been so ordained. The reasoning may be a little obscure to some, but that is beside the question. It is my misfortune probably, not my fault, that I fail to follow it, The thin end of the wedge of social reform is entered and the first blow struck—fairly low down, but struck nevertheless. The next up ward sMoki (for such organisations strike upwards only) lops off the Borough Councillors, individually and collectively, of every political shade and calling. Are not many qua ; i farmers themselves, while others a e dependent for their subsistence on the farmer, his sisters, cousins, and hi a au ts. One heals, another c othes. Yet two others “ watch ” these oppressors ; and etiortioners. The final the municipal head “ it, so much for Manchester.” Jjma arch-conspiritor not only directly contiibutes to the sustenance and bodily nourishment of the husbvndmao, but encourages trade and commerce whereby shekels are gathered into his coffers. Avaunt impostors, we’ll have no more of you. The foetus of socialism is among us, society and its various forms of misgoyerninent is about to bf reorganised. The lagy, the thriftless, the incompetent of unfortunate humanity are about to achieve success and to enjoy equal privileges with the industrious, the thrifty and the competent, by the degradation of the better men. This is said to be contrary to natural law and the “ survival of the fittest.” Darwin apparently did not understand what he was theorising ah nit. What a figure he would have out at the Waimate Workers’ Union, eh. Silently and sorrowfully ycurs, One of xhb Sdbuergbd 10th.