CO-OPERATIVE LABOUR.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12592, 7 September 1906, Page 8

CO-OPERATIVE LABOUR.

-- ■« (■raciAL io " th« nt&sl') , I WELLINGTON, September 5. * What one speaker' described »c iti| J annual protest againet 00-opwatiri | labour we* made to-day by the Farm* »| ort . Union, Mt Middleton moved:—"That th#:| syetem of construction of public vorM.'|jj by co-operative labour be diecontinuc4-;J in favour of construction by email con*:| tracts." He wae satisfied, ho e»i<l»H| that tho money voted would go fiirtheJ.F under the contract system. lie ha»-| seen co-operative labourer* wheeling|| clay in email barrowe for fifteen chain**;! Mr Cooper eaid 00-operntive wae haying a worse effect tfcan moe* | people imagined; it was making good i; j men into bad men. The average ootM'M of our railways had increased froof3g £7000 to £9000, and in one case the 'J railway ooet £15,000 a mile more thaafj the broad gauge railway through t-Ml •< Eooky Mountains in America. Mr Leadky urged that a Royal mission should be eet up to enquiry into the system. If that was don#| there would be an immedaato domandj for the abolition of the system. H«. had heard of ono rase in which a tun-i nel wae being bored from each end. and'j the line was five foot out when th»' centre was reached. J» Several other members against "thi* squamlering ot publio,? money." and the motion via.s ugre«a& to, tho mover urging that whenever *| well authentioatttl o-iise of wusto 'o|j puMic iKoiicy wan brought under thli-j notice of niombers, tUt^ - ahould fiiv** it evwy publicity. "%