Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1878.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4453, 24 June 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1878.

"Pboorebb and poverty," hand in hand, mark the triumphal course of the Labour Unions in New Zealand. Each separate Union is well organised, admirably disciplined, and its elected bead is in touch with the Winistry. The power of unionism at any moment would suffice to turn out the present Government, and' to put a purely Labour Ministry in its place. Therefore Ministers have to grovel, before the Labour Qod, which has been set up, and take their orders from it. The Premier has too much common sense to doubt for a moment that the Unions are the real rulers of the colony. That clever young man, the Minister for Labour, is always danotog jigs to the tunes which' the Unions play, but his devotion to the caase does not anae from any real belief in the labour fetish. The Unions' by a short-sighted selfish polioy are flfestipgigin aj-iny of unemployed. This army is becoming a'-ipepagfl Jo both the Unions and to the Government. 1 The only remedy whioh the combined, wisdom of the Unions and the Government oan advise is to, disperse the army through the country.- But as (M SB the unemployed are drafted

out of the towns. they find tbeir \ray'; back again, the town congestion is ua- [■ relieved and the'country is dissatis. Bed. : Tbe only real; relief for-this growing - evil is to reverse the policy of the Government,; Private employers of labour, especially con« tractors, have been pereeouted, harassed, and impoverished by the Government under pressure from the Unions, and they have been afraid to embark in any .but compulsory enterprises, The wage fund of the Colony has Bbrank by several > millions of money per annum, and till confidence is restored the contraction will continue. If the Government and the Unions were in earnest, and their desire was tohelp the working man,the first step they would take would be to give hostages to capitalists and employers of labour that money could be safely spent on reproductive works, Such works oannot now be undertaken because the conditions imposed by the Qovernment prohibit euccesa. A limited number of persons who are members of unions do light work at a compatatively high rate of wageß but tbict jb virtually a privileged class which will someday fall a prey to the army of unemployed which is increasing day by day and , which only requires to be organised , to become destructive,