Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-01
LABOR TYRANNY IN NEW ZEALAND.
Growth Of Socialism and Arbitrary { on
ditiOns Threaten Country.
NEW ZEALAND PAWNEp.

While it is alleged this country 5
galloping on by leaps and bounds n
progress is branded on every mile I IS ),
there are not many who stop to inq i 2
what is the real position of things. / D
those who wander through life in ey
Zealand without rejecting upon the
pace they are going, 1t may be instr CT
ing to know that the people of his
Dominion are carrying on their sho DC
ers the enormous debt of 1928, 1852, 90,
or S335.00 per head of the Eurol san
population of the colony. This Isl
impress every person who has the in
! terest of the country at heart as Dig
order for the unborn millions to fu fill,
and they will have to put their SHOULD ers
| to the wheel with vengeance to lift
this stupendous debt off the peopl of
Maoriland. 1t is not pleasant tt ng
to know that a young colony like \ ew
Zealandis mortgaged up to the hi in
every direction, and not only that, 1ut
! that they are still borrowing money on
the assets they possess at the rate CT
| So, 900, 900 and more every year. J he
present year provides for sum sligl .ly
in excess of 1000, 900. When Their is
added to this $298, 1852, 1856, the enorm ,us
debts piled up by city councils, will ge
councils, and so forth, it must stl Ike
the most casual observer of things as
they run as most serious and unhal py
position for the country to be placed in.
THE INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION ACT.
l notice from the daily papers That
the arbitration court is again sitting IN
this city, and that, under its legall2ed
| tyranny, honest and respectable citiz ms
1<N4x f,~;lH oil
and fined right and left for suntiry
| breaches OF the varied and Impossible"
| clauses of the industrial arbitration act.
How long is this monstrous injustice to
continue here? To my mind it is won
derful that the politicians cannot, or
will not, understand that this ''pce-
cions" act only continues to exist on
sufferance. 1t has existed so long as
| it has simply because its working has
hitherto been all in favor of the trades
urionists, and against the employees.
| The employers, in most cases, have pos
sessed property or means which could
/ be distrained on in recovery of fines IN
| hicted by the court, so long as matters
continued on this basis the act was all
right. But the moment the court turn
ed round and put its claws on trades
union employees, who had broken the
/ law by going out ON strike 1.-THE very
! thing the act was introduced for the
i purpose preyenting) then the whole
system o trades unionism throughout
/ the Dominion rises up in arms at once,
and denounces the court, the act, the
/ ministers for labor, and everybody else
4 that has anything to do with 1t. inns
act has lived on the prosperity OF the
I country. Were depression to come. anu
employers consequently be compelled TO
discharge hands all round, even trade;
unionists themselves would be the hrs
to break through its restrictive clauses,
and take employment wherever they
could get it-and at whatever wages
| The Londen Globe newspaper and tht.
I Pail Mall Gazette both sums up the po-
sition exactly on this subject. Accord
/ ing to these papers, the arbitration &C
Z in New Zealand has reached its crucla
/ testing time. agree with them. They
/ both condemn the hitherto one-sldss
effect of its working, but cannot wei
( see how the government is going u
I collect fines from hundreds of strikers
/ or failing in that, consign them to jail
I Yet that is the logical outcome if the
Z workers persist in striking And who
car ston them if they are determined.
Z There appears TO be such a mania
amongst the legislators here for rega-
+ iatinnr everything in the social system
bv statute law. instead of being con
+ tent TO allow natural law TO work out
it's own ends. Inc result Is that m
( Justice. tyranny, and oppression pei
ineate the Industrial system. insteao
of industrial peace reigniRg throug hOat