MR TREGEAR AND THE EMPLOYERS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11668, 2 July 1906, Page 4

MR TREGEAR AND THE EMPLOYERS.

A PROTEST AND HIS REMOVAL EEQUESTBD. Dunedin, Jane 30. The Secretary of the Employers' Federation, instructed by the Advisory Board, has written to the Bod. W. Hall-Jones drawing his atention, as Minister of Labour, to a letter recently published, which is a copy of oao written by Mr Tregear, the Secretary of Labour, and addressed to Mr Benson ia America in wbich the writer claims to be the leader of a Socialistic crusade , against the employers of this Colony, tbe employers being characterised as " Robbers, " and the workers as their " Victims." The letter furber states that "We have barely touched the fringe of the soiled economic garments. So long as the wage system endures, so long as capital holds tbe land, machinery, and other means of production, so long is the bulk of our population only a collection of well fed and well clothed slaves. The Board is aware that Mr Tregear while publicly admitting the authorship, claims it to be privileged, owing to its being a privato letter addressed to a friend. With this aspect of tbe question the employers are not concerned. They are concerned, however, to know that the iesponsible head of a Department, one of the most important