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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LX, Issue 9345, 16 April 1909, Page 4

Mr Broadbeut's recent attack on au industrial legislation is difficult to repel, bub our contemporary, tho New Zealand Times, scores a poiut when it asks: "Is tho whole of modem thought aud literature concerning the obligations oi ! an employer to his employes to be svvopt into the factory dust-biu, and the community revert to the undisciplined maduess from which nearly every country in the world lias emerged after long tribulation ami trial?" In Now Zealand there has never been any undisciplined madness, excepting suci! as exists of late. It' our legislature is clever onough to punish a bad employer, without punishing a good one, lot it do so. If, however, it lias to punish a dozou goon employers in order to get at one bad one, it is unfitted to deal with tho obligations of employers. We have examples of late years of undisciplined madness, when cortaiu unions have threatened the Government, aud the Government, alas, has goue ou its knees to sue for

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