SANDFORD BREAKS THE LAW

NZ Truth, Issue 1148, 1 December 1927, Page 8

SANDFORD BREAKS THE LAW

AifONG' these are! many of the I retail estab- ; llshments such as; provision and dra- j pery shops, where I often the employee! exists at the whim j and dictates of his | boss, who makes itj very patent that labor is cheap and that "if you don't do exactly as you are told and say nothing about It,

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n& (for others) and s speak with unction lat half-pie religi- | ous meetings. h Some even sit In = judgment on their ifellow-men In = courts of Justice, i while themselves I breaking the very I laws they adminis- | ter, and, when their § shame 'is unmasked, a they strive to wrlgi gle out of the con--5 sequences of their

Out you 80. The "out you go" to tantamount to being stretched on the cross-frame and flogged on the slightest sign of rebellion ln*the case of the legalized slave, except, perhaps! that it may be a little worse, for the slave of old usually had no wife and family who would suffer with him when the lash descended cruelly on his back. • _„, „ . . - To the single man the punishment of the rack Is not severe, but where the employee is faced with the constant nightmare of ««"*»* Jo be fed and backs to be olotned. . his oppression is suffered, perforce" m alienee, although rebellion may surge m his heart. Such employers are to be found m all grades of society. Some mask the slaver m them beneath the cloak of religion. They toddle off to church on Sundays m their best blue suits, armed with the printed code they preach but do not practise—the Bible —and are known amongst the congreration as nice, kind, good men. Some aspire to social eminence and are tin gods m their own social clique. They prepare plans of social reform

niu»e ->"»«"a ■» * i the adoption of subterfuge, At the Hamilton Court recently, Arthur G. Sandford, head of the Frankton Supply Stores, the biggest emporium m the railway township, Masonlo brother, Rotarian, justice of the peace and staunch advocate of the "Big Brother" movement, was convicted of overworking employees m his Bweat-shop at Frp.nkton, and thereby not pi ayi ng the game by the other Btorekeepers of the town. Incidentally, Qf course( ne waa adjudged guilty Of breaking the very laws ho waß pledged to administer .as a J.P. ThQ storeke' epera of the Junction apparently do not like Sandford. They consider that by keeping his store open after hours while they strictly observed the law, he had not been playing cricket, and their indignation prompted them to lodge complaints with the Labor Department, Neither did they think it quite the right thing that his employees, when they should, like ordinary mortals, be enjoying their 3atirrday afternoon off, were slaving behind the counter with their aprons on.