COST OF LIVING.
(To tho Editor.) Sir, —Though labour legislation, viz., Arbitration Court, is described as the cause of our present high priced food, the effect is not so much this, as actual aggressive reprisal to serve as a goad to the intrepid worker, who has decided to adopt ways and means to apply a living wagi? to meet his requirements. We are all familiar with the pictorial skit of the milch cow, "The Two Litigants," one at the head and the other at the tail of the cow, and the lawyer doing the milking. Substitute capital and labour for the two, and we have it again; only that the vendor of our necessaries is reaping the benefit whilst labour is waging its war to maintain a fair wage, actually necessary according to our standard of living. That it is necessary that the producer should deal more directly with the consumer is manifest. Such pressure as we hear of now will bring disaster or remedy. It resolves itself into * problem or crisis.—l am, etc.,
LIGNUM VTTAE.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 225, 20 September 1905, Page 10
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176COST OF LIVING. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 225, 20 September 1905, Page 10
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