Stop-work meeting
Sir. — Sir Thomas Skinner must be surely on the wrong side when he received fulsome praise in your leader. It is a fallacy of capitalism to put forward the old story “too much money chasing too few goods.” Plenty of people can’t afford the homes on the market because they haven’t the money. There are hundreds of homes wanting naint and the paint merchants have daily “ads” exhorting people to paint. Your paper has hundreds of “ads” exhorting people to buy goods. Big firms are crammed with unsold goods because the wrong people have a surfeit of current money and the large majoritv who are wageearners haven’t enough to
buy the surplus goods. There is no shortage of goods, houses, etc., but a shortage of wages in the workers’ hands. Where is all the money then and what essential goods are really short? — Yours, etc., E. COX. April 7, 1976.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34123, 8 April 1976, Page 16
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