PARLIAMENTARY SALARIES
Sir, —The proposed big rise in wages for members of Parliament compared with the hard-fought-for wage rises of a few pence for workers, proves conclusively that our present legislation and laws governing this country are unbalanced. And so it is with housing. Government members are given high-cost houses at the taxpayer’s expense while wage-earners can be evicted from homes, or are left to live in hovels, or transit houses, or to board with relatives. Our trade, economy, and social status, too, are more than unbalanced under the National Government. I advocate a new political party—the Socialist Party, wherein all the humanitarian legislation and reforms of the Labour Party be incorporated but minus the reverse-gear element which has been apparent in the Labour Party for some time.—Yours, etc., BALANCE REFORM. August 11, 1955.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27735, 12 August 1955, Page 8
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