“BE GRATEFUL.”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10854, 25 March 1929, Page 6

“BE GRATEFUL.”

ARCHBISHOP TO WORKERS

“APOSTLES OF DISCORD.”

SYDNEY', March 11. A man should do a fair day’s work tor a fair day’s pay A man should love Ins wont as the means of his subsistence,- and should be grateful to his employer for providing work. These were some of the ideas expressed by Archbishop Kelly in a iorcefui speech made when lie openid the- new wing of St Michael's Orphanage. , . , • it men refuse to do a fair days ■work, then the output will become curtailed, and trade would go elsewhere and unemployment increase.’ said the Archbishop. “There are a lot of apostles of di-cord, who have a disturbing effect on the community hv creating a breach between employer and employee. Let every man endeavor to become an employer himself, and we shall have the best country in the world.”

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Picketing by strikers was strongly condemned hv the Archbishop as being against the natural law of just ice..

“[ speak as a man of religion, not of commerce ; but it is only natural that a man must work to live, and that he must not be hindered m his work,” added the Archbishop. ‘‘Workers should choose, as head of their unions, men who have made a success of their own work, and they should make it. their business to attend union meetings and vote for right and justice.”