Labour-only Contracts

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31134, 10 August 1966, Page 14

Labour-only Contracts

Sir, —1 am pleased there are others unprepared to accept Mr Hill’s tearful concern for those poor blokes who are not covered for all those privileges which by law are the right of his boys under the New Zealand bricklayers’ award. 1, too, will be sorry for them, if these sawdust Caesars get their way. We appear to have two laws—statute law administered by the Government through its responsible departments, and the jungle law handed out by the power-drunk militant union dictators. These dictators are quick to declare anything black but themselves, and put a ban on this and that. They then proceed to “boycott,” “scab,” and “Coventry” treatment to secure their ends. This is ruining the public image of the decent trade unionist and honest worker. Has the alleged industrial law-breaker been reported to the Department of Labour? If not, why not? —Yours, etc., HONEST SERVICE. August 9, 1966.

Sir, —“Random Reminder’s” charming Walt Disney-like tale of the Westport dog and the Lions, and memories of the Dunedin test crowds, prompt the following quotation from Walt Whitman’s “The Beasts”: “1 think I could turn and live with animals; they are so placid and self-contained. They do not swear and whine about their condition. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. Not one is dissatisfied —not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.” What a lot of kneeling is going on just now to the ebullient Mr Skinner land his out-of-date FederaItion of (sic) Labour.—Yours, etc., A. B. CEDARIAN. August 8, 1966.