WATERSIDE WORKERS AND COST OF LIVING.
-4 (rBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.) NAPIER, December 10 - The conferenco of watersido tw>rkeTß at presont sitting in Napier has parsed the following resolution: —"That this confcrcnco expresses its sympathy with wage-workers who Miffemi from the enormously increased cost of living during the period of the war and since, but wliilo doing bo wc realinj that as long an commodities are owned and controlled by the exploiters, there is no real remedy, and until the nceessaries of life are produced for use instead of Sor profit, the present t-y*toni of economic extortion and profiteering must go on. Tho commercial rings and truftft _ who own and control the food and rlo'thing supplv of the world aro enabled by their efficient organisation and economic power to levy a commodity 'price lax' on tho public, without consideration for the wxi.il or national welfare. Thifi conference. tlierelore. recommends to all workers that they demand a price for t-i.oir onlv coimnoditv—labour—in keeping with the high prices now demanded for the iieee<-s.aries of life, this being itie only method which the. wage-work-er- enn eiiinloy to maintain their Ftanduni oi living'."
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16703, 11 December 1919, Page 11
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