LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
SKA GRASS FURNITURE.
Sir, Will you let me add a word or two on the above question in reply to a letter appearing in Tuesday's Herald- -on the above topic? Your correspondent wants to know "Why can't we get a tariff put on?" During {he late election Mr. Massey declared for the enlargement of existing industries, and the establisment of new industries. Yet he was like the voice of one crying in the wilderness, owing to babel of interests clashing with each in cur unions. We will get a protectionist tariff when the Labour unions will demand it, and not before. Just now, they are more commonly howling for cheap food, clothing, and furniture. While the men employed in local industries hare only time to slander the local employers of local workmen, the importation of cheap foreign rubbish will go on. Imagine the folly of Labour conferences year after year shirking the tariff issue. Mr. Massey would have saved them from themselves, but they yelled like so many Dervishes at him. When the workers themselves will be fools who can help them? William Richardson. - Queen Street, Auckland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15824, 22 January 1915, Page 3
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