WARNING!

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 73, 26 March 1912, Page 8

WARNING!

RECENT POLITICAL CHANGES. In his address to the Chamber of Commerce to-day the president (Mr. H. C. Tewsley; remarked that when he last addressed the chamber he indicated that in his opinion there were clear evidences of a _ change in the dominant factors in political life in this Dominion, and that an increasing power to be reckoned with would be organised labour. "If we are to continue in the van of progress," Mr. Tewsley went on, "we 1 must keep ourselves abreast of the changing conditions of life and adapt our surroundings "to these necessary modifications of the lino between capital and labour that the experience of tha Old Land to-day is co amply demonstrating. In thie new country the possibilities of rapid equitable adjustment are much greater, and labour, owing to the buoyant conditions of trade, has been enabled to secure many advantagee that capital could ill concede. Might I venture a. note of warning that this continuous pressure will inevitably result iv lets productiveness, and that the undoubted hostility to capital that is evidencing itself in some directions, stimulated by individuals who are not reai friends to labour, will do much to discourage induetry and enterprise, and re.Milt m a gradual but sure stoppage of tho fostering of miuiufa-oturinf;, and a return to the importation of many requirements from outekle sources." A concert will be held at the L>land Bay Hall to-morrow evening under tho auspices of the Island Bay Tennis Club. An excellent programme hac been arranged, under the direction of Messrs. E. G. Peek and A. Nees. The proceed* are in aid of the court funds. Messrs. Arthur Wavburtou cud (Jo. advertise* un amended Hal of properties in this issuo for sale.