'Fred has fired his boss" Said Uncle Chris. "I met Fred Stone on Friday evening: Good chap Fred; solid, steady and not likely to blow his top for a trifle. 'Pve had it; he said, 'I resigned this afternoon: What' s the trouble?,I asked: 'Oh the boss; he$ a slave driver and he S getting worse: Nothing' 8 ever right; he's got half of them scared silly: He' 8 the sort of employer who causes industrial trouble: 'He may be. Employers haven t any mortgage on virtue: There are good and bad. But in New Zealand you can fire your unsatisfactory employer and g0 and find a better one: That' $ what Pve done;' said Fred. Marvellous thing to be able to do;' I said. 'They can't do that in countries where the State runs the whole show. They have good and bad bosses too, no doubt; but employees cant change their jobs; can t bargain for better conditions or better wages: Short of mass revolt there'$ no way out. 66 One great virtue of the democratic system of Free Enterprise is that it is fluid and can be changed; in fact it is always changing: In this system employers and employees have one simple responsibility to do a fair thing one by the other. Accomplish this and there's not 4 system in the world to touch Free Enterprise:' Inserted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand: RA
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 16
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