DIRECT ACTION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15081, 2 December 1919, Page 7

DIRECT ACTION.

:<To the Editor, of the Herald.) Sir,— Mr. Lysnar would probably be very, angry if anyone called him ah extremist or a. direct-actifcmiiist, but when yo,u compare his 'at!biitiud6 with . that of thp6& he so roundly condemns perhaps he rejJly doesn't show up as well as they do. N«W, it is the law pi thedaind tWt every; .person shall '. deliver Up • his wool to' the' Government .and* be; paid' a fair . price for jt. . Mr Lysnar, the' only man in. New; Zealand to adopt such an attiitaide,.says, "I. defy the law," and refuses to ip,iv.e up his,Arool at ': what every fairminded, person will agree is" a really good. . price ; in short, ' he • has gone on strike and openly defied; the law. Now, 'the laborer 'whom Mr. .Lysnar so strongly . dftncxunces goes on strike for perhaps five shillings pei\. week more wages, to enable him to" buy Ihe woollen clothes necessary to the health, and comfort of his family, the largolv /increased' cost of , which ia duo in 'a lar^e measure to the' already high pince' o£ wool whidh Mr ■ Lysnar ' thinks is not yet high enough for hiiim.— l am, etc., - I : NtTFF SAID.