"CUT THROAT TACTICS AND UNEMPLOYMENT"

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21736, 30 August 1932, Page 7

"CUT THROAT TACTICS AND UNEMPLOYMENT"

i TO THB EDITOR.

S3,—l quite agree with all that " Fairplay " wrote in your Friday's paper under the heading " Cut Throat Tactics and Unemployment," and am surprised someone has not taken this theme in hand before. It is a wonder the business men do not band together, for "Unity is Strength," and devise some means of trying to put a stop to such un-Br Jtish methods as your correspondent describes. Fathers and mothers who have girls and boys in employment should think twice before patronising places where cutthroat practices are used. A number of them do. not think at all. and then wonder why members of their family are out of work. If I were a business man, I would use all means in my power, with the help of others, to put a stop to the practises condemned by, '■ Fairplay."—-I am, etc., ,'-V. '' •:. . \ WoMAtf. ■TO THE EMTOB. ■ -, ;;,',;- Sn,—" Fairplay," whose letter appeared yesterday, writes on behalf of the victims of the partial application of a principle. I cannot understand why, if competition is a good thing, it is not a good thing for everybody—for the man who has his labour to sell as much as for the man who sells sugar. Why not, for the labourer's good, buy our labour in the cheapest market, as we buy our sugar or our flour or any of the products of labour?' Why conciliation councils? We don't want conciliation; we want competition. There cannot be unrestrained competition in trade and labour remain immune. u Jfor- want transport boards, .whose' chief concern is to free the railways from,Competition from which private enterprise cannot .escape. Let the salaried man and the professional man also get into the struggle for a crust. If unrestrained competition is a good thing, it is good for them, too. —I am, etc., August 27. J. M.