Cost Of Living
Sir, —1 used to be able to get firewood sawn up by a man with a chain saw for $2 an hour (or £4O a 40-hour week). This week, on trying to get this work done again, I was told: “Yes, it used to be $2 an hour, but we’ve all got together and put the price up to $4 an hour.” Why serve an apprenticeship or study for a profession when one can make $l6O a week with a chain saw sawing up fire-
wood? Where is it all going to end?—Yours, etc., SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFICIARY. August 20, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31763, 21 August 1968, Page 12
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