ROBBED OF WHAT?

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1901, 22 April 1913, Page 4

ROBBED OF WHAT?

(To the Editor). Sir,—lt is with amusement that I read in your to-day's edition a report of Mr R. Ross's speech, that th* working class are worse off than slaves or serfs. The working class of the present day is too well cared for, if anything, and his policy seems to be to get all he can and ask for more, howling all the time tiiat hj« is being robbed. Robbed of what? He cannot tell yon, and in reply to this query'strings up a few meaning) less phrases such as'' Social necessary labor power," "spareexchangeable value, " and "economic determinism." Such psuedo sociologists should b* segregated from their fellows ami placed on a desert island to work out their own salvation. I view with alaim the nomination of a Mr Hardisty to contest tli« municipal election as tie tool of th» extremist section of syndicalism wno prefer to hover in the background and re-enact the episode of the monkey and the chestnut. It behoves all employers of labour and owners of house property to combine together to protect themselves from vandals and wreckers of the hom® who seek to destroy that which they can never replace and to whom nothing is sacred.—l am, etc., VERITAS. April 31, 1913.