SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 1894. THE CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4889, 29 November 1894, Page 2

SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 1894. THE CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM.

The Woodville Examiner thinks tho co-operative principle a grand one, but finds outit does not, work. We are not surprised atthis for even the special experience of this very journal illustrate the difficulty of working it, The Co-operative Labourers about Woodville were only making about live shillings a day, and though they were not sufficiently discontented to throw up their employment, their dissatisfaction went the length of open and reiterated complaint. Then the Woodvillo Examiner came to their rescue and proved that each and every one of thorn was a hard-working, industrious man with a large family, and that he could not live on theco-opef-tive earnings and was worth a good deal more, Next the Premier came on the scone, and the troubles of the men were laid before him,' He sympathised with them and removed the manager who was 'in charge of thorn, It is now understood throughout tli c Colony that if men don't make wages on the Co-operative Works the managers will he removed, and we think that for the'future.the managers will see that these labourers do make wages by hook or by crook as by no other means can they please their employer, Mr .Seddpn,.' Well, tho Woodville Examiner having succeeding in getting the manager of the- works shifted, now points out that this official was in no way to blame, We have theVoldjold story of men been robbed and sweated by "Mr Nobody." According to the Examiner the Woodville manager ■was immaculate, but other managers it declares take bribes from settlers anxious to make a little money out ofeo-operativojobs' 'but'of course if inquiry were made as to who .were guilty of side dishonest Conduct the answer, would be "Mr Nobody." Our Woodvillo contemporary hears of a well authenticated ease, in which a man, with a cousiderablo sum to his credit in the bank, wanted a cerf tain joli on tlie Works. 1 " This job was the pick on the line, and the applicant, it is repoi'tedalthough asiugle man,'tipped an and got it; At the 'same' time'' there ; was a deserving man with a family; ( whose name had been, sent on by ■ the Labour Bureau,''and who had ■ been told to apply, and he would get ■! work. 1 Ho .did apply again and ' again, and 1 was put I 'off again and again, ProbablytliOj fact) that, he : was too hard up to spare his little ' tip to some interested party had ' something to do withit Still, since ] this man has made his repeated apt i plications, other >; single ,;men .from 1 Australia haye'been put on—men] in ] fact, who.had*tlie'''nest job on the line,'mode 1 a littiypili'lit'iti,' took a | trip'tb Australia]' 'came I 'back-,',,and t havobeoli piitbri'ngaiu;" liis grati)]'

tying,tojeam that notwithstanding these little peculiarities of the system nobody is,to blame, and that men are models; managers, angels; and'-MrSeddon an archangel. After all wliat does it matter as long as the Colony gets ten shillings worth! of work for every pound it spends ?