THE PROTEST.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 5

THE PROTEST.

(To tlio Editor "S.Z. Times") Sir, —I can throw a littjc light <m why inly tho roughest lake on stokehold work in Mime boats. The secret is the negiig- ' hlencss of tin- banian qua nt ify before I lie mast in the eyes of those to whom the mastery of air ami water counts tor more Ilian ail else the w;<le world contains. .Scarcely any two boats are alike, liimo of the services in the one company vary, and between eoni[ianits there is ■J vortex of difference. Obviously it is of tho place of an outsider to publicly ilifierentiato between the shipping eomj,auiis. but it may be accepted as an unvarying law of maritime social conditions that the better the pay in a. small degree and the quarters in a much yivater degree, the more careful, reliable.

!,vl amenable to rule the crew. The piestiou is quite an easy one ii nUaekod in Ino rigid way. The principal desideratum is whether men have minds which have to be. catered to as well as bodies. Tim principle involved in the tramway i trike was precisely the sain'’ as that in this. The mentalities of .-aiior.- are not Lonsidorod in a useful way. Some years ngo a tragedy took place in our harbour, the incident's of which would, if examined, prove that the human side til '.tie sailer is absolutely ignored. A i.teamev was ordered away from the wharf—while the men were in open mutiny on account of not getting redress "if their grievances—anil had to bo brought back immediately, on account of 11 dabbing affray, and considerable neandal would have ensued but tor an adroit smuggling away of the principal who stood charged, but whose trial would have proved a bit nasty' for those in authority. Had the fact that men were mental us well as animal in their couilnirtirai the smallest consideration tho incident had never happened, and if you house men like dogs you will only get human deig.s to go into those liouses.—t am etc., HENRY BOELBY. July ISth.