APPEAL TO WORKERS.
110 THE EDITOR.] Sir, —The Clark'sonian appeal in your issue of even date i; admirable journalism but too one-sided to be effective. All the sacrifice is to be made by one side —those least able to bear" it. The whole question is really one of wages and the root of the 'matter is of course that with the tremendous profits at present being made by the shipping companies out of the exorbitant freights charged, the men are justly entitled to an increase in wages to enable them to meet the present excessively high cost of living. All the trouble could be settled in half an hour if we had a Government worth the name. Why try and. persuade, cajole or bludgeon the men into undue sacrifices when a “straight tip’’ from the Government to the Shipping Ring that the increase in wages was justly due and must patriotically be paid would settle the matter and re-establish equitable industrial peace. Patriotism certainly, loyalty every time; but give the men a chance, don’t ask them to make all the sacrifice. —I am. etc., SYDNEY MARTELL.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 348, 6 February 1917, Page 6
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