We ask you to pay 5d. to your Trade Union so that we can stop your employer from keeping 9d. out of your wages.
If you would rather pay 9d. to your employers than 5d. to your Trade Union you have LESS SENSE than we thought you had.
“But,” you say, “we can earn more money with a knotter.” Quite true, but you are paid on “production,” so if you get more money it is only because you turn more work off, and in turning more work off your
Employers get a Greater Production
but they make YOU pay for it.
The knotter enables you to piece up at a quicker rate; this saves time. It enables you to make smaller knots, thus making better work. The two combined makes
Quantity and Quality.
The employers get both and make you pay for it.
We say to you that it is no part of your duty to pay for improved machinery. If it is beneficial to the employers to improve any part of any machine they’ll do it without consulting you, but we hold that if by doing this they get a greater and better production then they ought to ADVANCE your wages and not deduct five per cent. from them.
Think! Think! Think!