PAEROA-WAIHI RAILWAY LINE CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1160, 2 December 1904, Page 3

PAEROA-WAIHI RAILWAY LINE CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM.

TO THE KDITOR DAILY TELEGRAPH, Sir,—Will you allow me spaoo in tho open column of your valuable paper to draw attention to what I think is on injustice endured by some of the men on this lino, In Now Zoaland, a Christina country, British subjects are supposed to enjoy British freedom, It appears to tno, from personal experience, and conversation with the different gangs of men, that at the present prico paid by tho Dopartnjont tho men make nnywhero from 4s to lis per day, according to the cstimato of tho official in cbargo of the gang. It scorns to mo that eomo of tho gangs aro paid 8s per day, while othora who work as hard ai.d lnngor are paid lofs in proportion, In order to show what I think is one-sidedness I quoto my own personal exporionco us an instanco, During Novombor last I, with six other men, (acting under instructions from Messrs Hay and Sbaw, Government Engineers otc, Paoroa,) loruied a party, or company, and engaged to work undor tho usual prico, terms and conditions by written, printed, and signed agrcemont by mutual consont, About a weok after commencing work I had occasion to ask the official in ehargo of tho gang whothor wo hold tho right to mcasuro onr own work, Ho reportod my question, and on Nnvembor SiOth Mr Hay, in company with Mr Shaw and Constablo fiovan, of Karangaliako, came on to tho work and discharged mo contrary to thowishosoffivoofmypartntirs, and at tho same timo spolto as if ho would givo mo in ehargo if I refusod to go out of tho cutting Thcro woro at tho timo 20 mon within hearing, I leavo your roaders to judgo for them* salved whether this ia doing your duty to your fellow men—whetbor this ia British rule,—l am, etc, H, J, tVniTTIBR. Waihi, Doeembor 1,1001.