To the Editor of the "Norrn-Cama Dairy News."
Srr,—There is not very much to object to in your Labour Correspondent's reply to my-letter; it is much more moderate than the original article. There are still a few points, however, which give a wrong! impression.
Whose are the directors pictured by your Labour Correspondent as being so tyrannical? Not money-bags, on the directorate because of their influential holding in the company; nor yet titled nonentities, so much sought after by some concerns as investing ani air of respectability; mor sharpers, skilled at cornering,' and otherwise penalizing the general public. The C. W. §&. directors are elected by the thousand or so ce-operative societies of which the C. W. S. is a federation; they are persons with years of experience as officials or committee-men on these retail societies, and have an intimate knowledge of the needs of the general public.
These C. W. S. directors have to hold the balance even between the claims of their employees on the one hand, and of the general mass of Ca-operative consumers on the other. Some misguided folk, among whom your Labour Correspondent seems to be one, appear to imagine the sole duty of the C..W. &. directors is to pay unusually high wages to their employees, even though this forces up the price of C. W. S. productions to ce-operative consumers, of whom only a small proportion find employment in ce-operative works. I imagine the trouble with the C. W. 8. bank officials can be note easily explained than settled. The stigma of "profiteering" does not seem to be applied to ordinary banks: that they should make huge profits seems accepted; and in_ the general atmosphere of affluence, the salaries paid are generous. But with the C. W. the bank is only a comparatively small department among many others, and the C. W. &. directors demer at paying to the banking employees salaries much higher than those paid to employees with equally responsible posts in other departments.
In considering how your Labour Correspondent regards the forward, policy of the C. W. S., should we not make allowances for the
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