SHIPPING STRIKE AND COST OF LIVING.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17613, 16 November 1922, Page 8

SHIPPING STRIKE AND COST OF LIVING.

TO THX EDITOR OF "THE PHESS." Sir, —As the soamen have seen fit to strike, for one cannot call it by any other term, just when it is quite hard enough for us workers to get along, I trust there will be ample free labour offering to man the boats, and so keep things afloat. It seems about time unions and unionism were knocked on the head, for when • one is forced to throw up his job, just because some of the union officials say he must, then all I can say is we are nothing short of fools to stantjl it. It certainly isatime the Act which says that"a man must bo a unionist to get. or to hold a job was repealed; and I think all sane workers should see that the man they intend to vote for at the coming elections will do his utmost io have that Act wiped out. The man [with a wife and family cannot afford to be idle, and therefore should not be forced out of work when he wants to go on working, and common sense dictates that there is only one way for the high cost of living to come back to normal, and that is the ''cost of production must first come down"; then goods at lower prices will follow.7—Yours, ec., • WAGE-EARNER.