"EX-WATERSIDER'S VIEWS."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 17 November 1913, Page 5

"EX-WATERSIDER'S VIEWS."

To' the Editor,

Sir, —The aTjove writer treats your readers to a long sympathetic piece of weakness on the water-aiders' strike This writer's production is like a lot move of what we see and hear, "AH talkee talkee." and "no sense. He tells us. "The opinion I hold is. that the wharf Laborer in this case is being victimised." Omte so! But who 'w 'he victim iser of tJ>e uoor wharf laborer? This writer would have us believe that the sMppins: cmnpauies are. What bosh! The wharf laborer is his own victimiser. as anybody with half an eye s.d oto onne<» of brains mn see and tinderstand. The wharf laborer is in exactly +Ti<? s^^e n^ition as that of a cranky dog who rushes away from where it was nsefullv employed to bark, hire arid worry in another dog's row. The ship-

builders had been docked of a travelling allowance to which it was contended | they were no longer entitled. This could have been settled without any row. The wharf laborer was not involved at all IVevertheless, this benighted beiug fov whom our sympathy is craved, not only pokes his nose in where he had no call to put .it, but he knocks off work in working hours to harangue and be harangued about'a matter that did not concern him. When he had satisfied himself m the way of silly interferes c he strolls back to his work quite sine ot his position as judge-in-chief of all connected with the "Wellington hi rbor! But the real authorities had other estimates of this little victimised tin god, and had locked him out to harangue until he was sick of himself and ready to return to some kind of sense and reason, and quite right, too. <T. 0. TAYLOR.