Wage Order
Sir, —Tom Bryce can make excuses for the miserable failure of Labour’s fixed-prices legislations arid Labour’s shoddy treatment of aged pensioners when they refused to give them increases in line with wage-order increases, but the facts remain. Returned servicemen had to make under-the-table payments before they could buy a home for their family. Like thousands of others I was driven, by sheer necessity, to evade the law and hand over my war gratuity before I could procure a home. Labour’s ineffective policy increased the opportunity for the wealthy to make further gain. By prosecuting employers who paid above-award wages to deserving employees, Labour hampered development. Feeling they were underpaid, key men retired ahead of time, employees did what they felt their pegged wages were worth, and overtime .was refused. Labour’s policy is antiquated and outdated.—Yours* HAD LABOUR. September 29, 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30560, 1 October 1964, Page 16
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