The Ten Per Cent. “Cut”
Sir, —“Vox Populi,” in your issue of Monday, gives vent to an extraordinary tirade of abuse of the Labour Party in Parliament. He makes a comparison between the Civil Servants and the ordinary workers, whose hardships he apparently understands and sympathises with, but why he favours Messrs. Forbes and Coates cutting down their wages, as well as those of the Civil' Servants, is hard to understand. It seems that his tirade is based on an entirely unwarranted assumption, viz., that Mr. Forbes’s proproposals are going to save New Zealand from the depression, and that therefore it is unpatriotic to oppose them. Is it beyond his powers to see that the Labour Party may just as honestly believe that the Governor nt’s proposals will increase the depression, and that therefore it is unpatriotic to support them? ■ Sir Francis Bell pointed out the danger of embellishing a wage-culling policy with a halo of patriotism. His warning was •videntlv required.—l am, etc.. PELORUS. March 31, 1931.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 160, 2 April 1931, Page 11
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