" GIVE US A WORSES."

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 6

" GIVE US A WORSES."

In reference to the letter appearing in Jour issue of February 24 under the heading 01 "" C° m piaint, : ' signed by "Give Us i Chance. • I should like to let your eorrespondent know through your paper what kind of in. impression. h.£ has jxiven ot iiimseti as a_ worker and one of the unemployed. I;i nrst place, he states that he and his mate had worked previously for the advertiser, and considers tnat they should have been given a cnance. Is it not a fair assumption that they^got their chance and abused it? If satisfaction had been given to the advertiser, would he not have been glad to get tiieni back on the job rather than have given it to somebody else who was not familiar with it. In these days of keen competition the oaly. wa 7 jet and hold a job down is to give your best to your employer in return ior your wages, and if you can't do that you elusu be prepared to step aside and let somebody else take your place. There is very little inducement for capitalists to invest money in labour-emnlovins industries; not ohau wages are too high, but because they _ don't get value for their money, and they never know when a strike will be organised by the unions, costing them perhaps all they have, so the sooner workers come to their senses and give their best, and cut out strikes, the sooner capitalists will have suiScieEt confidence to invest money which gives labouTj and unemployment will "diminish." , - . . GIVE US A WOSSSa, '