LABOUR VERSUS CAPITAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 250, 19 October 1907, Page 5

LABOUR VERSUS CAPITAL.

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'■"-■-' .',•' v DTJNEDrN", this -day, The -.executive of the Independent Political Labour party; issue in the "Sjfcar.V"•a;'lengthy':manifesto iv reply:to :what:thcy.characterise as the Employers' AssoeiationV annual attack oh' the Labour party.: They say: "The Labour party has been for the'last fifteen years getting: so-called labour legislation' on the Statute Book of New Zealand, and what has it'availed .tbem? % or next to nothing. We don't deny that our-laws are alongthe-lineßofsbcialism, but when employers ■;say "we ' are'"--the . T eheriiies. of the .Dominion, generally,: ;we. take this opportunity of giving that statement an absolute and emphatic denial, as, ; with our knowledge of ■ workers generally', we haye rib' hesitation. in saying there is just ;as. large J 'a propbrtibh of .workers •who ure desirous; of. the .welfare : of this Ppmiiidn as can be foriria among the employers' class. We give an equally emphatic denial to the assertion- that we arej-the enemies pf the employers: K'is not.: the employers' we -are' attacking, either ' individually '■. or - but a. jsyßtem,., of competition : whieh we believe; is neither in the Dprtmtrirests of employer or employee. The only object 'employers* book' seems 'to be that of setf-mterest. As to the charge, that we are widening the'breacli between capit "tal' and labOiir, we' cannot avoid that, as we believe that Labour has been exploited iri; ! the'past.::''We are only endeavouring .to; we think Labour is rightly- entitled-' to. We made a slight stir at th.c. last- municipal elections, and no doubt we will be - heard "more of before long.", k . ::-