PUBLIC OPINION

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21209, 4 September 1940, Page 9

PUBLIC OPINION

As expressed by correspondents whose letters are welcome, but for whose views we have no responsibility. Correspondents are requested to write i:i ink. It is essential that anonymous writers enclose their proper names as a guarantee of good faith. Unless this rule is complied with, tfieii letters will not appear. RESPONSIBILITY OF UNIONISTS (To the Editor) Sir, —It is really not worth arguing with Mr G. A. Crabb, but I would like to point out to him that many men getting over £IOOO a year earn every penny of it. They do not work from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. five days a week, with no responsibility, but are on duty practically every waking hour and have to make vital decisions affecting not only many thousands of pounds but the bread and butter of hundreds of workmen dependent on their ability to make any business pay its way. I have always noticed that those shiftless individuals who would never have a chance of earning anything but the minimum award wage are the ones who cry loudest against others more industrious, more efficient and with more ambition. I am not earning anything like £SOO a year, but to those who are I say good luck. You get nothing for nothing in this world and I hope to earn as much myself one day by intelligent use of what capabilities I have and loyalty to the firm that provides me with my bread and butter.—l am, etc., A REAL WORKER. Hamilton, September 2. FROM “WAIKATO GULLY” (To the Editor) Sir, —“Dad, did you see that letter from Mister Crabb in the paper today?” “Years, Dave, I think he’s got sometV?.ng there. About those salaries: why should those coves that run the company get big money? Any of the clerks could do the job, and cheaper too!” “That’s right, Dad, and what about the heads of the unions? Surely union wages are good enough for them. They don’t work ’ard.” “Same with the politicians, Dave. Eve listened in and I don’t reckon they are worth five quid a week! And surely it don’t take big wages to run a bank; any mug could do that.” “I got an idea, Dad. What say we open a subscription list to send Joe down to Wellington to demand that Mister Nash reduce the M.P.’s wages to five quid a week?” “Good idea, Dave, and when Bob and his bulldozers have done with Joe we’ll erect a monument to him in Garden Place—if there’s any money left.”— I am, etc..

POUR!. Ngahinapouri, September 3.