THE A.P.U. AND ITS WORK.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 9, Issue 349, 16 January 1918, Page 6

THE A.P.U. AND ITS WORK.

Editor, "The Maoriland "Worker,"— A noto from mc re Ben Marshall and the A.P.IT. may clarify matters. Mr. (irayndlrr, in his anxiety to defend tho policy of the A.F.U., ia applying * ol ' , ° x " eruption for shearers, quoted, in tho course of a really excellent letter to the "S.Z. Times," from a statement made by a Air. Burnett, a sheepowner and a member of tho Sheepowners' Association. Unfortunately in the "Times' " print of the letter, the last sentence in the I3tirnett quotation was disjoined from the rest of his utterance, the effect being to make it appear that Mr. Grayndler stated that his organisation was in existence to assist tho Chambers of Comnioroe and the farmers when in reality it was Mr. Eurnett who was saying that of the Sheepowners' Association, lien Marshall will teo from this that his letter wns written after » tooliteral reading of that part of Mr. Grayndler"s letter which had beeu onspriutod. In aihovt, J»en Marshall is ms victim of a whilp Mr. Grayndlf.r is tiie victim of a pointer's error. 1 am suro that if Ben Marshall hafi tlio slightest association with Mr. GrayndleT he would be quickly convinced of Mr. Grayndler's integrity, of his genuine anxiety for tho well-being of the Labor movement, of his hatred of. conscription and of his readiness to follow any policy calculated to .ss«rv« the beijt interests ot the working classes everywhere.—Yours, etc., JAMES THOEN.