No Sentiment There!

Maoriland Worker, Volume 7, Issue 291, 13 September 1916, Page 4

No Sentiment There!

Mr. Chas. Rhodes—Attorney ioi the Waihi Gold Mining Co.; President of the Gold Mine ( Owners' Association of N.Z.; holding large interests in the Auckland Tramway Co. and Tonson and Garlick Furnishing Co.; interested largely at Lime Stone Island; and generally ono of tho most representative employers in the Dominion— .in giving evidence for the employes in the Waihi Miners' dispute at ~ the Arbitration Court, stated that a phenomenal mining industry had been built up at Waihi.

Mr. Wesley Richards (Workeri' Ad« vooate) in cross-examining Mr. Rhodes, asked what part the workers had played in building up this phenomenal industry? .iy . Mr. : Rhodes: ,None whatever. We just consider the workers a ■.piece of machinery, something to buy and sell.

Mr. B,ichards:'Then you would use the worker, just as" the carpenter would his hammer or hiß chisel?

Mr. Rhodes: Precisely

Mr. Richards: For an "hour'or two, and throw him aside without fnrfchef" consideiation until wanted again, just as a carpenter would?

Mr. Rhqdes:- Exactly

Mr. Richards: Then there is na sentiment as far as you are concerned?

Mr. Rhodes: Not a bit.