WAGE APPLICATION
Sir, —What is the real objective of the Federation of Labour, I wonder, in even considering a further application to the Arbitration Court for wage and salary increases? The federation is already painfully aware that previous applications. when granted. have been shortly followed by the inevitable increases in prices and costs. So is it to be concluded that all that is really desired is to give the workers another object-lesson on this absurd flaw in the existing monetary system? All new ideas which clash with old and firmly established systems have their “growing pains.” but I suggest that if the Social Credit leaders tie up the loose ends and present a united front to the electors next year, the “protest vote,” referred to by Dame Hilda Ross recently, will sweep the country.—Yours, etc.. IN WITH THE NEW. Timaru, May 7. 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27962, 8 May 1956, Page 3
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