"SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE IS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22906, 30 December 1939, Page 5

"SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE IS

SAUCE FOR THE GANDER”

TO THE EDITOR OT THE PRESS. Sir—Your correspondent, Mr Bloxham ’ would have us believe that he has ’the welfare of the employee at

heart, but, by the tone of his letter, it is easy to see that he has a very bitter grievance against the Government’s labour legislation, which has given employees a decent standard of living. , , , ... I cannot see how class hatred exists to-day among workers; rather it is the employer such as your correspondent who breeds class hatred by trying to keep workers on a full-time starvation W jfr Bloxham’s second paragraph is a gem. Surely no employer having seasonal work would, keep a man all the year round when he has no work for him during certain months. Naturally, he would keep him pottering about in the off season if the old .rates of pay were ruling.. These ambitious and thrifty men who became growers themselves must have been financial wizards. How could they save when a married man was receiving £2 10s a week? . , . . , Many of the growers had imported machinery, such as rotary hoes, etc., long before they discharged the regular hand. They did contracting work for 7s 6d an hour, and paid the driver of the rotary hoe anything from £1 to £1 10s a week. I am pleased to say that there are growers in Mr Bloxham’s district who have always employed a large number of adult workers and paid good wages, and, to all appearances, are m sound financial positions. May the “vicious legislation” spoken of continue to protect workers from unscrupulous employers.—Yours, etc., BE IN. December 29, 1939. .