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(BattimoVe CAocolates of Distinction / r fo *h home ior gifts for entertaining Aulsebrook. C H R.ISTC HUR.CH LABOUR SOCIALIST PROTEST AGAINST CUT But reduce their own employees WHEN the Arbitration Court was considering the question of reduced award rates, Mr. jf. Roberts, Secretary of the Alliance of Labour, strongly opposed any cut in wages of workers, while Labour Party Leaders opposed the reduction in the House and from the public platform.' After the Court’s decision was announced, these professed friends of the worker imposed a Cut of 10% and more in Certain cases, upon the employees of the ** N.Z. Worker”, the Official organ of the Labour Party, and also increased their by a half-day per week. To avoid responsibility for this political somersault, rhl« barefaced insincerity, the leaders of the Labour Party put out a further snnokescreen. They 6ay they ate not responsible. These are the “N.Z. Worker” Bosses Here are the names of some of the Shareholders and Directors of the “ N.Z. Worker Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd.,” which while professing to stand for higher wages, imposed cuts in the wages of its employees and made them work an extra half-day per week. (Prom the list furnished to the Registrar of Companies on xyth July, 1931). MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT-SHAREHOLDERS The list also includes the following official Labour Candidates i James Thom, Otald Thomas Brindle, Wellington Suburbs Rev. J. Archer, Kaiapol W. M. C. Denham, Invercargill W. J. Rogers,' Wanganui John Gilchrist, Dunedin West v 'eter Neilson, Dunedin Central G. Thurston, Riccarton Following are the Directors (from the same list). James Roberts ; Sec., Alliance of Labour. Lewis Glover ; Sec., Wellington Gasworker’a Federation. James Churchouse ; Pres., Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. John Oldham Johnson; Sec., Wellington Waterside Workers’ Union. Angus McLagan; Sec., Upited Mine Workers’ Union. John Smeaton ; Pres., United Mine Workers’ Union. Felix Newfield ; Sec., Wellington Seamans’ Union. Finton Patrick Walsh; Pres., Wellington Seamans* Union. Arthur Cook ; Sec., New Zealand Workers’ Union. Mr. Cook, it will be seen, is Secretory of the Union Of which the Public Works’ Tunnellers form part. It was this gentleman who raised such strenuous objections to the wagee Of tunnellers being reduced recently. It will be recollected that some of these tunnellers were receiving as much aa jO-ti-o per day. John Robinsod j See., Dunedin Operative Bootmakers* Union, and 18 other Unions. Francis Joseph Niall; Sec., Canterbury Bakers and Pastrycooks’ Employees’ Union. ThomU F. Anderson; Sec., Auckland Federated Seamans’ Union. William Herbert ; Sec., Otago and Southland Shepherds, MuSterers, and Drovers’ Industrial Union. Alfred Jackson ; Sec., Auckland Hotel and Restaurant Employees* Union. Frederick Daniel Cornwell ; Sec., New Zealand Federated Painters and Decorators’ Association. Beware of the Socialist Vote-catching Sham DON’T BE MISLED

Against Wage Out*. " Would you go into the lobby with Labour to fight a further wage cutf ” inquired a Kaiwarra elector of Mr R. A. Wright, Coalition candidate for Weilington Suburbs. “ Yes, I would,” was the reply.