Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1894. THE WORKERS' UNION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4859, 24 October 1894, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1894. THE WORKERS' UNION.

Nothing could be more unwise .and more inopportune for the cause of labour than n visit from a delegate to organise a branch of the Workers' Union in this district. Just now employers of labour require to be conciliated rather than irritated. Latterly they havo been buffeted by an unfriendly Government, depressed by low prices, worried by rabbits, and annoyed by swaggers, and the last straw seems to bo coming along in the shape of tbe paid delegate of an organisation which sets men against masters, From one point of view the mission may do good. If i its result be tlio establishment of an effective branch of the Workers Union in this district, an Employers Union will follow as a matter of course. In a neighbouring district, that of Hawke's Bay, an Employers Union, based on the principle of free labour lias been emiuently successful, and there would belittle difficulty in establishing a similar organisation -it the Wairarapa, It has not been done so far because as yet,the necessity for such, a combination has not arisen, but the/efforts of the Workers Union may emphasize this necessity, and lead up to a position in which employers and employes can meet on equal terms as far as organisation goes, but not in the old terms of mutual trust and goodwill which have characterised their relationship in the past. It is to the credit of tlio North Wairarapa Liberal Association that knowing the state of local feeling, knowing tlio difficulties of employers as well as the exigencies of the eniployes.it has put its foot down and declined to forward the designs of the delegate from the South. The Association must feel that the success •of his efforts at tho present time means a distinct injury to work and wages and it is reluctant to king about that condition of trouble and' riot which has recently been manifested in Australia, Thedelcgate from the South will have to do his own work hero single-handed, for af tor the expression of opinion from the Liberal Association, wo question whether either Messrs Collins, Hutchison, or Hogg, JI.H.R.'s whose names he recently invoked, will care to appear on his platform, Wo presume he will attempt a meeting during his stay here and if lie does no better Ayith it than lie did pn tlio last occasion when iiowasiu Mastorton, he will not accomplish much.