EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12587, 23 August 1901, Page 6

EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Prom the letters appearing in your paper over the signature of Louisa Blake, I conclude she is neither an employer or worker, but one t>f those meddlesome busybodies who must always have their fingers in someone else's business, for want of something to do. She clearly knows nothing of the practical side of the subject on wnich, she writes. What does .she want your readers to understand lrom her letter on employers arad workers? She appears to see m'the near future a social Ufopia in which every man will be his own employer. Yet she says there comes a time in a mail's life, when his just ambition is to take part in the control of the work in which ue ds concerned. Who, I ask is he to control? But she says before this new era for workers is inaugurated he must recognise the brotherhood. This is delig'htfuly ambiguous. Who does she include in this brotherhood, the recognition of which is tho portal to her social Utopia? From her lormer writing in your paper I have concluded that her idea of,brotherhood does not extend much beyond Christchurch, and anyrate not beyond New Zealand. She would carefully exclude all who are nob of European origin, no matter how capaibia they may be as workers. Does Mrs Blake think it practical to do away with employers and build up a State on the basis of communism? This would be crab-liko progression, and would! reduce us to a very primitive state. The closing sentence of iie.r letter I fully agree wi'to, but would ask, have all the natural aptitude to cultivate the highest powers of numanity? And if not, will not the possession) of these natural gifts, developed by cultivation, raisa the possessor to a commanding position amongst men. It is because all are not equally endowed by/Nature that to the end of time we shall have employers and employees. Each : have a place in our social economy, not antagonistic to ea.ch other, but mutually helpful. It is not the em-, ployer who as the enemy of the worker, but agitators, who for the most part live and fatten on the gullibility of the average worker.—l am, etc., ANTI-BOSH.