THE TEN PER CENT. CUT.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20333, 4 September 1931, Page 13

THE TEN PER CENT. CUT.

j, * x» the editor or the press. Sir,— According to the report of the ' of tho Lyttelton Harbour jgS" after various suggestions had jgDi as to what they would do 01 lie wages cut, they -went into comJjg|ee to discuss the matter, and degjgd that the amount should remain in (b .Harbour Board funds till tho end rfjtb* financial year. . (bows a great lack of realisation i»b»tthe 10 per cent, cut was introiwd "for. Local bodies like the Ha'rjKOr' Board and Christchurch City OneU have not realised yet, and so IfT ean lesser lights be expected to. Hi JO per cent, cut was not put lavages and salaries for the direct ijgelt of the employers, and as a o&aThit at Labour, but to reduce and must be honourably passed «to and by all sections of the comth» Harbour Board by reduciadUTgßS, the City Council their rates, feh person in his turn must pass it on, L«4hß& when Labour receives it again ll cob bny his commodities at a lower ifaifg, so that the amount of money into the coutnry can .employ a HESni.passing the 10 per cent, legislaHHltrliflinent should have introduced Hrattoe& again, and -wade them the mßfo for not 'passing on the 10 per UKa row of stocks round tho HfiftStatue site would have been a fpnjjr place to have put the Oity CounBLio meditate on the way they had Egged the law by taking.their Tatethe £39,500 loan, instead of Hw*B steps to see that the 10 'per cent. tSSpssed on*in - reduction of costs to •• Until all unitedly see nf reducing costs, we can 1-aßESTbaak tothehappy time when decent. Jiving, and • efery■Hd .employment. ' It is not the aHKre' want; 'but the commodities. ;«Bjb no over-production. We can |:9|{j)at is mado wlien it is produced ■fcra, cheap rate;that our reduced ■Kpower- can buy,-it, and" we wiU &p as rich with 'half or a quarter iMuigy wo receivie to-day. / HlLnt rate and pnc« bail L fc w^PWW^C r % o r ro wed on -the i' "<lat someone else Jor if. Now, instead »ung on our cbilSBIiHRg.' on our own, and we 'utSfifiHrnxi intolerable weight to 1 gfUnbled and mort- * ntrnWE**'"''' "" that now 1 that is what 'I : _ eybeton. ••