THE FLAXMILLERS' DISPUTE.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —On reading the report in your paper of the Arbitration Court proceedings regarding Flaxmill Employees' Union, I was very much disgusted at Mr Prior's designation of a rouseabout at a mill when he called him a loafer, and I can only put it down to his (Mr Prior's) ignorance regarding such labour that he used the word; for I can assure you that the work of a rouseabout at aflaxmill would tax all Mr Prior's energy and ability to fulfil sometimes half of what the rouseabout's labour is for the day. And I would call Mr Prior's attention to the fact that the present flaxmill owners are not in the habit of employing loafers and paying them 7s a day, and if he comes down to where I am working I will prove to him such is the case, and dare Mr Prior to call me a loafer when he has not got the shelter of the Court over his head? Again reminding him that if he has no better way of pleading his case than calling decent men loafers he may as well leave it alone. Thanking you for space, I am, etc., A ROUSEABOUT.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8305, 8 June 1907, Page 7
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203THE FLAXMILLERS' DISPUTE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8305, 8 June 1907, Page 7
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