COST OF LIVING.
Hearer meat is the latest prospect, milk has risen, dried fruits are an exorbitant price, raisins have risen 100 per cent, pineapple is unprocurable and so on ad infinitum—all the fruit of the. Labour Government's interference and reckless extravagant policy. spend, spend, spend, spend (propaganda station £ ,0.0001. ll)<. cr*~t ot - livinjr has risen a*. employers were forced bv law to pay labour higher wages whether ther were worth it or not. and now faced with an economic failure—a brilliant thought—the Minister to keep face with the workers contemplates again forcing wages up. A magnificent example of a vicious spiral, more wages, higher cost of living, more wages wantcd.dc.. etc. Imports are being cut far too dra-ticallv lor .New Zealand's good. As we cannot produce economically on world parity we should imjHirt more and to reduce ■ ic <o*t of living leave wages where 1 ). \ aie. live within our income, give ' > ? >t employers and practice thi lit just fop a change. A HARD WORKER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 97, 24 April 1940, Page 6
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COST OF LIVING.
Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 97, 24 April 1940, Page 6
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