We quote an item of news from the Morning Pose
of Tuesday which needs little comment :- We quote an item of news from the Morning Pose of Tuesday which needs little comment :- " A strike of the employees of Wallsend Co-operative Society began on Saturday. The directors, nine of whom are Trade Unionists, have left the Co-operative Wages Board and refuse to recognize the employees' Union officials on the wages question. Wages, they declare, must be reduced, or the Society will have to close its shops."
We do not quote this refusal to recognize the men's Union to
make a cheap score off the Trades Unions. We do hope, how- ever, it may help to make them see that the problem of who is to manage a business is not so easy as one might suppose. Every one at heart has a tendency to believe in the existence of a Fortunatus's purse. When, however, you have to run a business
and find so much hard cash weekly to pay the week's charge the vision of an inexhaustible fund soon vanishes. There is only one way of getting more money out of a business if wages are to be stable and that is by producing more.
