CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

Wairarapa Age, 22 December 1919, Page 4

CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

In a Tecent audience with Mr. Philip Gibbs, His Holiness the Pope referred to the industrial unrest in the following terms: —"It is the duty, of all men to solve these social problems in a lawful and peaceable way, and so that the burden will be fairly shared with good-will and charity. To defraud anyone of wages that are his due is a crime which cries to the avenging anger of Heaven. To suffer and endure-is the lot of humanity. If there are any that pretend differently, who hold out to a hardpressed people the boon of freedom from pain and trouble, an undisturbed repose, and constant enjoyment, they delude the people, impose upon them, and their lying promises will one day bring forth evils worse than tho present. . . . The great mistake madeis tp take up with the notion that class is naturally hostile to class, and that the wealthy and working men are intended for conflict. When work ing men have recourse to a strike, it is frequently because the hours of labour are too long, or the work too hard, or because they consider their wages insufficient. The laws should forestall and prevent such troubles from arising. They should lend their influence and authority to the removal in good time of the causes which load to conflicts between employers and employed Christian morality, when adequately and completely practised, leads of itself to temporal prosperity, for it merita the blessing of that God who is tbe source of all btosstojp."