INCENTIVE PAYMENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26530, 4 August 1947, Page 8

INCENTIVE PAYMENTS

Sir, —When your correspondent F. R. H write “ rewards for labour must be lifted above the fodder level,” and " when the whip is concealed —and wages high, effort tends to slacken,” he makes the disgusting suggestion that wage-earn-ers are animals and not citizens of equal natural rights and privileges as the individual employers. F. R. H. is wise to shelter his inferiority complex under anonimity. Unfortunately, this occasional sense oi inferiority is played upon by the labour agitator to stir up class antagonism between employer and employee. In a less-regimented society than New Zealanders at present enjoy (1) the wageearner to-day is the employer to-morrow; but under our Labour Government he must in most cases go cap in hand for a licence before he can rise by his own efforts and join the privileged bands of State-protected monopolists. Private enterprise offers increased rewards to those with enterprise, ability and energy above the average, and the profit motive urges on enterprise, progress and greater production, with inevitable benefit to the whole community.—l am. Oamaru, Aug. 2. R- Finch.