CAPITAL v. LABOUR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2632, 25 June 1887, Page 3

CAPITAL v. LABOUR.

..JTOTUE EMTOR.J ■ Bm,—Will tho capitalist, and the ~'• class to. which your correspondent, Mr ■ C. Pharazyn.belongs to, learn the simple truth that-the thinking working inen.are quite aware that wagos .. .must como.Qut of profits, and so also •' must the -interest on the capital invcs- - ted, but what the working man objects to is—The. capitalist having the-sole . power of arbitrating as to what .-, tho. .workers .-share of the profit ...shall be..-.Mr C. -P. cites Mr .Booth; of .Carterton as an in-' stance of a pure philanthropic spirit' desiring to employ, the-people around • him, but does, Mr P think, he can make the working man believo that . : that, is the only mofcivo that prompts 1..'- Mr B, and tliat a desire. of having a J' profitable investment for his capital .has .nothing iq..do. with Iris -.firewood . cutting scheme. : .It i 3 very kind of Mr . P to be so' candid in tolling tho poor : .-." f working man:what.ho. knows, already, ■.'• '.and adducingas a.reaßon that ho does .'■ ' hot want any Totes, but I think the majority of the working- men in the : .Wairarapa know what kind friends of .-•. theirs the Pharazyn family have -. always beon, and that Mr G. P. can . , ; .savo. himself thai-rouble. of 'soliciting .their suffrages, as it would only bo "Loveß labor lost." . . : -. Yours,lc, ■: • .••'?• '.' ;,;;./. . ' . ~ Snip.