THE PRICE OF WOOL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12588, 24 August 1901, Page 8

THE PRICE OF WOOL.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Does it ever strike the squatters and other haters of .those wicked Unionists why the price of wool is so low? Do they ever think that if wages were hetten / that the people would he able to buy bettea clothing and 1 more blankets, and other, commodities? Capital is making every effort to crush Unionist® out of existence, and if they succeed they will undoubtedly make the poor poorer, but they themselves will be none the richer. Many a firm will have to succumb if the standard,of living, is lowered. Starve those wicked Unionists down below a living wage, and wool and everything else will have to drop in price. For some time past we either nave bad, or we have been told we have had, a period of prosperity, and the people were beginning to get partially satisfied, when, all ah once we are told that we are going too fast, and that we must slow down'. Talk: aboutgoing too fast! Take the. Grocers’ Union, for instance, who have 'been trying for eighteen months at least to get a settlement, as to whether, they should have a living wage or starvation wages, and have got no .settlement as yet. If the farmers were wise, they would not try to : keep ■people from getting a living .wage, as they, an their turn, would get a much price for their produce.—l am, etc., PIONEER.