INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17595, 7 October 1920, Page 10

INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES.

ME'^ r " Oolbeck's comparison' of «thfl .money ,>.age to bp "earned "iii .dairy-'-ln 8» mining, and carpentering hardly 'conveys an adequate idea ; of the results of working in -the spheres - mentioned." -if avm? hf? -experience as a contracting carpenter and as a dairy fanner. I,may give m ;Qwn -experience'. I -found the care of stwfc to be ; incessant and continuous, canteen hours a day .was .not sufficient to meet .the call for implements" and mill-, ing. But it was much the same with me as>: contracting carpenter,' for'- after the eight hours an -ttus ' job there were estimates and accounts to be" made up, and I had little .leisure excepted Sundays, In. this WW of- jsocjal, .find' indus£rin.i ! evolution we are evidently looking for a .! definition of the word ""Profiteer," and J ,?. Ne c IS saying, " Who is any ,neigh-' * c$ r \ Sodig ..change ,in cur"\estimafcing of ivaluea and method of paying for them is necessary. Mr Maasey has told us that, unimproved land values in this Dominion have lately increased some tw.entyfoar million pounds. "Who is getting it'' 1 labour prices have also risen considerably c in ; an effort to keep pace with the increase S m diving cost. At the same time it is open to question whether, with all our improved machinery, real wages have in--1 . suggest that 5 sane Labourites should organise an indns-. trial economic committee to act in Conjunction with the Arbitration Court, and whose objective should be *Jie balancing. or industries and the .adjustment of" rewards, shaving special regard to -family circumstances. Something must be done to counteract tjiia miserable drift into sectjoniErn which is as far removed from true Socialism ..as chalk is from cheese. The production and expert of . our dairy products' should be encouraged and supplies augmented by. municipal production ana so absorb casual labour. We must prevent ;the collective voice' from becoming a. collective vice cr yo t shall be like the darkle who .when asked what he (was doing for the itch, said he was mostly scratching for it. E.N.I). 1