WAGES AND COMMERCE.
"'j DANGERS OF HIGH SCALES. 'j RAILWAYMAN'S WARNING. r- , Received 12.1' i p.tn.i l' ( , WASHINGTON. May 17. 1- Mr. .lames I. Hill, the railway magig natc. speaking at the National Foreign i- Trade Convention, warned the United s. states against following Britain's lead iv allowing the labour unions to tix ware scale*-, thus enabling Oermany to malkc successful aitae__ on Krit'tsh comnier c. lac burdens placed on bu-moss in England were producing widespread industrial unrast. and a similar effect was likely in the l'nited Suites, which wonld j prove unable to hold her markets agaiu-t competitors, while maintaining I wage scales which did not permit her jto meet her competitors' prices, while ■ simultaneously offering no inducements ~] to capital to exploit new holds of deli, velonment.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 28 May 1914, Page 5
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