LABOUR TROUBLES
(To the Editor) Sir.—l should have added the word “period” when referring to “Retired Civil Servant” and apologise for the omission. Thirty-five years’ experience has nothing to do with the present position. Circumstances have decidedly changed since then. Plainly speaking, we are under the control of the trade union movement. Equality of sacrifice in wartime is just, and to state that workers should press for peacetime awards when soldiers risk their lives for 7s a day is more than unjust to the soldier. If it is necessary I would be only too willing to accept the soldiers’ rate of pay to help this country. When the Prime Minister states at an Easter conference that “every three years we account to the people and expect their confidence and vote, but every year we have to obtain the approbation of the Trades Council and Labour Party,” we can draw our own conclusions. It is about time that “All are for the State and none for the party.”—l am, etc., KING HENRY V. Hamilton, February 3.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21336, 6 February 1941, Page 9
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