LABOUR AND PALM SUNDAY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 16048, 1 October 1912, Page 8

LABOUR AND PALM SUNDAY.

HO THE EDITOR. , Sir, —Some'may a3k what has Paha Sunday to do with Labour, but Palm Sunday has become an institution of groat assistance to employers, especially m tho way-back, where the free labourer cau call at his boss's homestead, get whisky in the parlour,'.a snack in the kitchen and a parcel for tlie kiddies, if the scab is married, and when employer and his henchman part, palms are squeezed, and one of them greased, so as to defeat tho aims of the cursed agitators, who want to stop a man working for what he likes and whatever pay he cau get. Free labour, and free labour only, will save New Zealand from ruin, and the Government should he urged to bring out the starving workers from the British Isles or European countries. These men, on arrival here, would not ask for palatial quarters uor baths with Pear’s soap thrown in. No, they would erect- their own shanties, cook their own food, work like niggers and hoave half a brick at- any agitator who dared to interfere with the rights of labour—free labour. Close down all State coal mines; let us have private enterprise for everything. Then less officials would be needed for enacting the law, und when the inspectors lica Palm Sunday fifty-two times a year strike-breakers would not be needed, ns there would bo no cause to strike, and capital would reign supreme.—l am, etc.. KEREI.