Wairarapa Unionism.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3546, 26 June 1890, Page 3

Wairarapa Unionism.

[To the Editor.] words in answer toWon-IJnionist's remarks on" Wairarapa Unionism" in jour paper of • June 10tb, as almost the whole of ; the article is a misrepresentation of j faots, and likely to mislead the public, i I state a few items to show that Non-unionistiseither not a farrier, or ■ if he is, he cannot understand his 1 business as a farrier. If he is both, j then, as a non-unionist, he is wilfully , misrepresenting the trade which he ( professea to belong to, This I will < show, so that anyone can eisily work 1 it out for themselves if they feel ( inclined. In'ihefirstplace he (Nonunionist) says that anyone can buy a Bet of hack 'shoes and' nails to put them on for Is Oil. . Now, to show what the wholesale price is at present, horse shoes, wholesale, are 80s per cwt, and there are just twenty- . two sets of ordinary hack shoes in 1 cwt; carriage, 85 miles, 8s per cwt. j Instead of Is Od per set, with nails, j can see, it is 8s for shoes' \ allft.- Nails, wholesale, , are Is per ] pond. One pound of No 7 nails will > saw four horses, with six over, pro- : viding none'are waßted. That is,' roughly calculating, 8d for nails, allowing the Bix over for carriage. , Instead of shoes, being bought for Is ] Od per set, with mils to put tbem on with, they actually cost, wholesale, ( landed, 8s 8d for shoes and nails. With labor laljd, and costs the 1 actual cost will be Ss instead of 8s ( 6d; that leaves 2s profit for shoeing \ a hack for 75.. Then out of 2s there haß got to come everything that nonunionist has'nt' taken' into caloul. fttion, suoli as interest on outlay, rent, taxes, insurance, wear and tear, fa Further, Non-unionist misunderstands th& meaning of the schedule when he says that the Union means to raise the price of - shoeing from 7s to 103. I think it means to grade from 7s to 10s, ao- J cording to the size of'the horse'or Weight of the house. I could go a ' great deal further into particulars, , but I think I have said enough at pd|(nt. As Ido not mean to take 8 upWo much of your valuable fee and space, I am fa, A Pbaotioal Farmer. .