GARRISON BAND UNIFORMS. TO THE EDITOR.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8141, 28 November 1894, Page 3

GARRISON BAND UNIFORMS. TO THE EDITOR.

Sik, —Undor the abovo heading your correspondent "Heal" in yesterday a paper blames tho Garrison Band for ac« c pting my tender for their uniforms, and covertly insinuates that I ehull bo unablo to complete their order at tho prioo without resorting to a eystom of sweating my workors, whioh he thus dosoriboß : " Under this system you are subject to continuous nagging, that this is wonted and that that must be done, and that you must work harder} and that being unable to respond to tho crack of the cow whip you aro booked tor dismissal whenever tho rush of work is over," and so on in tho samo strain. Now, Mr Editor, aa I beliovo this Mr •• Kotvl ' to be one and tho same with your other correspondent who insinuated that tho Oarrison Band and myself were in league, and that tho contract was arranged by us beforehand^ whioh you vory properly denied In your*! colutnnß, I begin in think I ""»st have

some particular friond in the trade, ono who is cilhor particularly anxious to do me harm, without regard to truth, or ono who is a staunch trade reformer und "Ro»l" Rrtibans' friond, thinking only <>i tho publio good, nnd who would eoorn to iujuro mo or anyono by baao insinuations woreo than Hop, and in ordor that ho may pmvo that hi« motivi'B are put o I will submit tho following facts, and if ho can prove them wrong, I wi 1 doiuto an additional guinea to tho Wairarapa fund : That I havo been 14 yearn in business in o unarm, and during tho whole of thut time tho best of fooling has existed between my workors and myself, most of them having boon in my employ for yoars, throe almost since I started bu9i* iioas ; tint tho proportion of fomuloa and boys employed by mo is leas, and tho wages p.uJ proportionately higher, thin in any other establishment in town ; that so tw from harassing workors during tho busy timo and dismissing them when tho push of woik is over, 1 havo always divided work in slack times, and have ficarooly evor during tho whole of tint timo dismissed a worker at all ; that 1 employ more journoymon than all tho other shops in town pufc together ; anJ ho fit from being tho most necessitous of the work wo have moro orders on our books at present than at smy timo during the past twt lvo months ; that tho amount of my tender will allow a living wage and a fair marginal contract profit, and was entirely fair and above bovrd between mynolf and tho bnn<). And in eonoluaiou, as I believe thut upon fa ; r enquiry, your correspondent", if not already aw»ro of these fucts, could have asoerhainod them, and as his letter is calculated not only to injure my business but my roputatiou as a public nun, and what ia perhaps of moro importance, to seriously rdioob on my workers, I hopo ho will havo tho oouriigo to avow himself, find under his piopor signaturo prove his insinuations, or, like a gontlotiuti, withdraw thtin.— l am, etc., Wjr. Waddkll.