BRITISH WORKING MEN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16037, 23 January 1918, Page 7

BRITISH WORKING MEN.

NEED FOR BETTER RELATIONS WITH CAPITAL. An appeal for closer co-operation between Capital and Labour was recently made in the House of Lords by the Marquis of Salisbury. “Tho vast majority of employers are good employers,” be said, “but to some labour is more than one of the raw materials of industry and men are only human machines, whose business is to create wealth for those who employ them. The governing classes hitherto have been inclined to regard. the working class as a sort of dangerous animal of enormous strength and great potential violence, to which it was necessary to be very civil, but never to trust. It is absolutely necessary to correct that attitude of suspicion. Though the most formidable reports of unrest come from South Wales, -.the .workers there have Jointly assumed financial responsibility for a working men’s college for the study of history and economy. Is not that reassuring? These men are after the pursuit of truth ; they are not going to trample on other people’s rights, but they believe they will find in economics and history a Justification for their wildest theories.. Their love for their country is shown by tho recent magnificent ballot for the prosecution of the war. We must altogether get rid of the want of confidence with which the working class has been treated in the pa-st. he must be prepared to tell them the truth —always the truth. Ido not belong to the party which believesdn the gospel of wealth. I know there are new parties now, but I am content with the party which had no respect of persons as between rich and poor. We want Justice for all classes. We intend to trust the working classes, who will have to work out their own salvation, and I helieve _th&. icust pill be returned.”-