TRADE DIFFICULTIES.
DEFENCE OF PRICE-FIXING. (To the Editor.) I notice a number of people complainim, m these columns about the fixed milk nrio« Until the fixation of prices the milk trad' was in a state of collapse owing to the selling of milk at a ridiculously low cut price which did not allow the companies any margin to employ roundsmen, carters, factory men clerks etc. and give any return to their shareholders! The men were entitled to their jobs, and the shareholders to a small return for their eani tal. Therefore the price of milk was fixed at a price which enabled the fixers to keen all their hands on and give the shareholders a return for their money. If they had not done this hundreds of their staffs would have had to be thrown on the unemployed roll and their shareholders would have had no return for the money invested. The average person would say, "Why worry about them J" but we are all dependent on one another. Those milkmen perhaps are helping to keep someone in a job, buying clothes, eating bread or ridin» in the tramcars. We do not want more unemployed, and we also want to encourage investors if we want timed to improve. The whole basis of employment is run on trading all trades being at a very low ebb at present through not being allowed sufficient mamn on goods to employ labour and show any return. Therefore we must protect and nourish all trades, not kill them. Hundreds of tobacconists, bakers, grocers, butchers, dairymen, confectioners, manufacturers, etc! and every trade are unemployed through not enough margin of profit. I know of" many businesses, perhaps three years ago, employing six men, where now the" owner is forced to bring his wife or his family into the business replace men with boys, and do everything to cheapen the labour bill, to enable him to°sell at the margins allowed and keep his doors NOEL CLARKk
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 233, 1 October 1932, Page 8
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