ALLEGED ORIGIN OF LABOUR TROUBLES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8362, 16 September 1890, Page 6

ALLEGED ORIGIN OF LABOUR TROUBLES.

TO THK EDITOR. Sir,—Labour disputes have eclipsed the political situation. In the opinion of several intelligent working men, present partial paralysis of trade has been instigated and fomented by political wire-pullers in order to divert public attention from a real to an imaginary grievance. Our Parliamentary reformers had effected a petty saving of £50, The Ministry, however, mostly exist by the profession of politics, as do al their friends and relatives who can b< squeezed into the wide portal of that nation,!, system of Charitable Aid called by courtesj the Civil Service. This corrupt clique hav determined by every means to upset th. retrenching arrangement, and in all probability will reinstate every salary. A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind. Mark wel' the needy members, who have existed by tin lucrative but precarious profession of poli tics, for the best portion of their lives; like one man they oppose the very appearance of retrenchment. Nothing under an annual saving of half-a-million sterling will save New Zealand. The Civil Service and superfluous education can well afford the amount and be all the better and more vigorous for the pruning. Give us full local government, and local rating ; no subsidies nor centralisation. Last year deficiency bills and other magical finance totalled nearly one million sterling. This is suspicious and alarming. To my friends who for a little relaxation have gone a-striking, let me say, Join with reformers and retrenchers in a lawful and overwhelming strike against admi : Native extravagance, tyranny, and corruption, and place in power a Ministry of honesty ant 1 capacity.— am, etc., James Muik.