SLACKING.
GENERAL BOOTH'S PLAINT. The world is becoming dangerously work-shy—that was the considered opinion of General Booth, the head of the Salvation Army, on his return to London at the end of July from a tour of Australasia.
"The last thing I want to do is to preach on this matter," said General Booth to a Daily Mail reporter. "I am a sincere friend of the working man; I know him and I wish him well. But the time has come when this almost worldwide antipathy to work should be discussed. It is not altogether a legacy of the war, for I began to notice it five years ago. It was a flicker then; it is a flame now. The working man—all who Work, not only the manual laborer—is professing a distaste for work, and is getting from 'I don't want to work' to Why should I work?' This spirit is noticeable on the Continent, in this country, and particularly in Australia. _ "Once it was a matter of dissatisfaction that'there "should be a class which had no necessity to work. Now, it seems there is a growing desire to emulate those who do not work. 'You' are hickv to get us to work at all' is the expressed attitude of many. What is still more lamentable is the way this is being handed on'from parents to children." .
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1920, Page 3
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