THE RISING COST.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1915, Page 7

THE RISING COST.

HEAVY TOIX ON CASUAL WORKER. GOVERNMENT ASKED TO MITIGATE IT - (By Telegram—Press •Association.) DUNEDIX, Wednesday. At the annual meeting of the Otago Gemerajl Labourers' Uniwiv to-night a motion was caTried calling on the (tovcrnment immediately to d«il with increased post of Jiving as affecting the wxxrlccre. The motion stated Uhat tilte increoee pressed moet heavily on casual workers, particiriariy the man -with a family. The casual worker 'had been called on, and ■had nospemded m many casrs in a wJiolebeeirted majinar, and it now became the imperative duty of the (rovenimemt to safeguard" the worker and mitigate the heavy toil being taken from him by the enhanced cost of iAw actual neceseaeriee otf life. A"t a meeting of the Dunrdin City Oouticfl to-night it was decided to endarw tic rjeeohrfckm pa»*ed by ■tiro Rmia-nga Borough Council, protesting against the [inaction of tflue (iovernmont, m eonnectton with the regulation of tlh-c price of food©tufTs.