"TOOTH AND NAIL"
LABOURERS' UNION PROTEST.
TAX FOR. UNEMPLOYMENT
(13y Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day
A resolution was carried unanimously by the general labourers' union last night protesting against the decision in the Unemployment Bill to levy a fiat tax of 3*o/ annually on the male section of the population to relieve unemployment. "We consider this proposal is unjust and unfair to* the minimum wage worker whose annual earnings are £130," stated the resolution, "and that it is obviously unjust to ask him to pay 30/ annually, the same as persons with incomes ranging up to £20,000 a year." It is considered that as the workers are not responsible for the unemployment problem they should not be unjustly taxed to provide against its effects on the community, and an appeal is made to labour organisations, both industrial and political, to "oppose this vicious principle" and to Labour members in Parliament to "light the proposal tooth and nail."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 201, 26 August 1930, Page 8
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