Waterfront Dispute

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30578, 22 October 1964, Page 20

Waterfront Dispute

Sir, —Your editorial comment ignores the pertinent fact that the solution to the problem posed by the efficiency of labour has been known for 40 years. The only obstacles to implementing the solution are the crass stupidity of all parties in tacitly accepting full employment as the only concept of national achievement and the mendicant attitude of all Governments in borrowing at interest from the robber barons of finance the money which they should issue as of their own right without interest. On March 23 last you published a report from Washington that a group of American educationists, economists, union leaders, and writers has warned President Johnson that radical new policies are needed to prevent automation throwing the United States into unprecedented economic and social disorder. National dividends and interest-free, debt-free money is the answer.—Yours etc., W. B. BRAY. Leeston, October 21, 1964. Sir, —The laggards on the wharf are on strike. Once more their strike boils down to this: more pay for less work. These shirkers haven’t the internal fortitude to do an honest day’s work. It’s time they removed those who run their union, forgot their petty, childish squabblings, and returned to some honest endeavour for a change.— Yours, etc., DISGUSTED KIWI. October 19, 1964.