THE CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14341, 10 July 1914, Page 5

THE CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM.

(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July If). Replying to the of co-operative workers on railway construction works throughout New Zealand, the Hoa. W. Fraser stated that he had always feen the mistake of the so-called co-operative system aa it existed at present. Ho agreed that men should be free to make up their own gangs. As a matter of fact the small contract, system he had introduced was the r°a 1 co-operative system. The price was' fixed for certain jobs, and the men could band together to take it up. At the same time the community would not stand employing men who did not give a fair day's work for a fair day’s pay. Ho was making careful niqurics into the whole question.