THE COST OF LABOUR.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 9 September 1930, Page 13

THE COST OF LABOUR.

Irroß or tex pebss r to "Cockatoo's" letOth. It is not the cost i causes so many farj bankrupt, but their ing. When the avera prosperous year, he any consideration tor le first thing lio thinks or some similar luxury, y is. the chief cause of rg becoming insolvent, tich the average farm is not a living but a with heroic struggle, nks the wages paid to t present is too high, treasonable, if he contoo much for tho man team on the farm from e morning and is not I after eight at night, lks no man should be on public works, and ; 10s is too much. He of living any considerarricd man who has nts to support, cannot t 10s per day. Putving down at a low man has to pay 25s a rent, and it takes 25s himself. As at 14s a d not earn more than £3 10s a week, this !s wifo- and family. It' i) find his wife ana than this he ought to llionaire long ago. Nt does not pay 14s in iself in office, but as; a considers this wage a for the man who has support. ish arbitration. This illd suit many farmers, n introduction of slavrould treat labour as His statement that a i find work on a farm cl to work for a rcaincorrect. Perhaps » Os a week he could» _ 1 think if the farmer le more work .himself time running about m uation would improve rom my experiences or xjoritv of them work s a dav, and not four:katoo" mentioned.— E FA KM LABOUR. ELECTRICITY. ro» Of TUB PKE3S. tho Lake Coleridge t not encourage conis current if tho .poweriicß abolished ■ for the minimum charges T Mv is live shillings per lite possible for nio to it inconvenience; hut 5s for being so good" ember Bth, 1930.