Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1894. GOT NO WOBK TO DO!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4678, 28 March 1894, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1894. GOT NO WOBK TO DO!

Ekemhona is thronged with cooperative labourers who are out of work, There are'eaid to be some fifty of them unemployed, and as usual there are expressed many .complaints about that paternal Government whioh has done 80 much for them, Thoysay that the elections are over the Government does not want them and is paying them off as fast as possible, They do not acqept 4be explanation that the Government hua reached the limit. of the parliamentary vote, and consequently has to reduce, expenditure, but claim ' that the vote is but partly exhausted and that the residue, is required to swell the coming surplus of the Colonial Treasurer. Then ibey complain, that while they are being out- adrift and diebanded fresh men-are beingaent upfrontOhristchuroh- and 1 Sydney through- the Labour Bureau. Ibey scorn to have an idea that if they could get to either Cbrietohuroh or Sydney they would obtain re-employment from the Labour Bureau and be once more dispatched at the coet of the public to the spot where they now are We are merely mentioning the sentiments expressed by the cooperative labourers themselves, carefully refraining from the use of the very strong language whioh they are applying to- the Government, We always regarded the co-operative principle iptiodnoed by the present Government as arrant humbug and! unßuitedfor a practical community like this. _ Good men have tried their hands at it and have cursed- it and gone their way. Now.tlie very riff, rail of our population are condemning it and exposing its shortcomings. It may end -in olmost a civil revolution in which the Government will be hoisted by its owa'putards. The system is a vicious one. •' Under jt the cost of production is raised by fifty per cent..' No private enterprise-in the' colony could stand : a Btrain of this hind, and no Government can stand it for any length of time.' 'After inflipt iog incalculablemisohief.Mr Seddbn is compelled to reduce the State Cooperative Labour Brigade. The original idea of rinding work' for all.has been abandoned, and now only urgent oases are being provided for. Every man turned away becomes the bitter enemy of tbe State, and the ranks of tho Opposition are now being reoruited by cooperative labourers.-