THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.
Sir, —Some people appear to think they can settle the shipping strike by bullying or threats —they can't. I was taught that if I disliked my job ci pay I could leave it and let someone else try it; also, that if a man won't work he shan't eat, I believe in real unionism, but as the strikers have broken the agreements ! made by their appointed leaders and j 1 themselves, I cannot see any reason i , against shipping others willing to do the j work for the pay and so end the deplorI able situation. The president of the I Seamen's Union says that few of the | strikers are members; therefore, if he is i right (and he ought to know), the local unionists should be the more ready to man the ships and so protect this country j from the consequence;; of a stupid following of bad leadership/ At the same time the owners, so long as they make no real effort to keep the cargoes moving, must accept equal blame for any consequent loss to the producers by whose work the country lives. Sutks'l. !
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19143, 8 October 1925, Page 9
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190THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19143, 8 October 1925, Page 9
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