CORRESPONDENCE.

Grey River Argus, 18 May 1922, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor). Sir.—ln your article on the Arbitration Court you were justly condemna- ! tory, and concluded by stating that ‘‘the Court has got back to the bad old bare subsistence level. The next i step is privation and want” and the I next step, Air Editor, you omit to sup- | ply. Perhaps death or “ Glorious i ■ .Death” come to make a welcome call j as an alternative to slow death follow- j ■ ing upon a Chow diet, would it not j he more charitable to introduce ‘‘the | auction block,” ami thereby enable sane labourers to strip to the waist and illustrate t<> prospective purchasers of I vdro-electric slave power their ability to function in any rapacity whatevei The business could be by the combined auctioneer, whose ke-eness to effect sales would surely be in keeping with their rates of commission. The innovation in these parts would help to provide a way out of. the present unemployment impasse. Should this lop-sided Aribtration w v succeed in forcing wages back to Hie pre-wai basis, what assurance could they give that such basis would be somewhat permanent? J.ord Inchcape, the shipping magnate, recently said, ‘‘Why the pre- | war basis? We ijiust be prepared to J follow competition, back, and further |.ark if necessary!” It naturally follows then, that we must be prepared to compete ami compete, and still run the risk of being wiped off the map eventually. A very encouraging policy law of the jungle. I contend that man will be free just when h<‘ Icarus what freedom, is when wr learn that a system with its ror canting humbug, and make-believe, is only our funeral march then, and not till then, will there be any hope for us worth speaking of. Education always follows adversity and the advent of the “auction block’’ may lielp former non-thinhers to realise the 1 utility of trying to build an Al nation on a ('.2. foundation. This auction device may succeed where soup kitchens have miserably failed for there are many who—‘‘Have never dreamed that all was 1 heir’s, They never even thought. They only know their master And what their master taught.” AIAOKILANDER.