Our Financial Position

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 13

Our Financial Position

Sir, —Thai the Labour Government lias been too precipitate in its zeal for reform must be plain enough to everyone, line mere car] hug criticism of our political masters will do no good. Mr. Savage has stated he will be no party to reducing wages. There are. however, other ways of saving expense. Let the Government dismiss without hesitation those men employed on public works* who make no honest attempt, to earn the generous wages paid them—they are only a .minority, but. their influence on others is harmful in the extreme. Let the Government sternly, bur. most, justly, refuse sustenance pay to men who refuse work found for them by the Government’s own placement otlicers.

Finally. let Mr. Savage show himself great enough to admit a mistake and restore rhe 48-hour week, without increasing the already high wages paid for the present tive-days’ work.

. The old saying that “a wise man sometimes changes his mind : a fool never/’ is perhaps worth reminding Mr. Savage and his colleagues of, at, the present time. Above all. let them instantly squash unjustified strikes, of which there are too many these days.— I am. etc., . AGUE. W aipawa. U. 8., December S.