THE LABOUR PROBLEM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17111, 17 March 1919, Page 3

THE LABOUR PROBLEM.

Sir,—Men to-day aro being. swayed by conflicting currents'of thought*=" Some are expounding maxims for our industrial lifa on the assumption that "increase of capital and material wealth is everything other;, that the establishment of conditions male: ing for the possibility of an_ overdeveloping* standard of decency in!.tho; conditions under which human life is lived, is the one thing needful. Some -are looking at it all from the standpoint; others, all from the employees' point of view. We are in the birth throes of the evolution of new economic ider.s and maxims,.and the greatest contribution we can make fa in the direction of dear thinkin? and wide sympathy. We want to settle things on a basis, which dors justice to the whole of society and not to any particular section, whether capital or labour. There is general suffering from partial views, and we shall gain, nob by standing off and shrieking names at each "other's partial " views,' but ".% striving in a -brotherly and charitable) spirit to combine them. some adequate synthesis. To sura up, Labour must ha taueht to see Capital's point of view, and vice versa, and the ideal must bo not might, but right, and the realisation of the truth that we aro here not to ma)-a money, or to feast in luxury, but to build up our nation in righteousness an J justice. .J- W. Husssy. Smithfield, Wauganui.