BISHOP JULIUS ON THE LABOUR DIFFICULTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8375, 1 October 1890, Page 5

BISHOP JULIUS ON THE LABOUR DIFFICULTY.

[bT lELKOKAI'H.—PKBHS AS.SuOIATION.I ChKISTCHUKCJI, Tuesday. Bishop Jplius preached at the Cathedral on Sunday night on the labour difficulty. He Look as a text, " fo it non lawful for mo to do what I will with mine own." He said all men were capitalist*). Brain and muscle were as much capital as money. Capital had rights to which everybody u«'ented, but it had responsibilities which few admitted. Some posaeeaora of money considered it within their rights to pay miserable wages, to form rings, to adulterate, and to trade on tho weakness, ignoramo, and credulity of men. Doubtless, however, many employers could pay better wages if there were better prices. Competition prevented them. Tho public would buy in the cheapest market, regardless of the workers, who were ground down in order that things might be cheap. Though had been some violence, the attitude of tho men in the present strike commanded his respect. Trade-unionism would not accomplish perhaps a permanent rise in wages, but it had done a great good in tlie past. The labour party had no right to crush the whole nation for the sake of one class or to put pressure on the rights of other men. The present strike in New Zealand had gone too far. Both sides should make peace and not be led by either workmon or capitalists in another colony. Was there no spirit of Christ among us to show some way of conciliation ?