DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14259, 9 January 1920, Page 4

DAY BY DAY.

His Holiness the Pope, In an audience with Mr Philip Gibbs. said: Labour "It is the duty of all men and to endeavour to solve these Capital, problems in a lawful and peaceable way, and so that the burden will be fairly shared with good will and charity. Te defraud anyone of wases that arc 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 who pretend differently, who hold out to a hard-pressed 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 only one day bring forth evils worse than the present. . . The great mistake made is to take up with the notion that class is naturally hostile to class, and that the wealthy and working men are intended by nature to live in mutual conflict. When working 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 t consider their wages insufficient. The laws should forestall and prevent sucli troubles from arising. They should lend their influence anl authority to the | removal in good time of the causes j which lead to conflicts between nm- j ployers and employed. . . . Christian morality, when adequately and completely practised, leads of itself to tern- I poral prosperity, for it merits the bless- j ing of that God who is the source of all blessings." Mr Morgan, Chairman of the Trades and Industries Nationalisation Committee of the of Royal Colonial ; British Shipping. Institute, in a recent interview, said that he was strongly opposed to anything in the nature of nalionalisatio'n of shipping in the United Kingdom, but some measures must be taken ana- ; lagous to those hitherto exercised by the Board of Trade in respect to rail- i ways, to regulate rates and services and to secure through bookings and rates for goods traffic and a bill of lad- . ing that would hold 'the companies responsible for negligence. Mr Morgm mentioned cases which had come to his ; notice of consignments in which,breakages in cast iron ware and glass ware had been as high as 50 -per cent. The j shipping company was protected against any claim by the terms of its bill of j lading, and it was suggested to the consignor that his insurance covered him, so that he had nothing in the na- j ture of a grievance. In one case, how- ; ever, the market was lost since, before j the order could be duplicated, an; American firm stepped in with a pro- ; mise of much earlier delivery and se- i eured the business. The need for through bookings and rates for goods ] traffic was also very real. An Ameri- : can firm could pay an exclusive rate at Chicago, for example, for a package

destined for some point in the interior j of South Africa. In the case of United Kingdom manufacturers articles for j export must be handled by a number j of intermediates here and at the -other j end. Mr Morgan said that he was not: sure that the same objections to na-j lionalisation of shipping applied in the . case of Hie Dominions, because the lack; of nucleus organisations in the. Dominions made it practically impossible for them to start adequate shipping services in competition with existing lines without the aid and backing of the State.