PAY FOR DOING NOTHING
NEW SOUTH WALES LABOUR COUNCIL'S PROPOSAL.,
(FEOII OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
SYDNEY, Ist March. The, Labour Council of. New South Wales has put: forward many Arcadian suggestions for the betterment of the: workers, but none so beautifully simple as one endorsed during the week. The council has solemnly and sincerely declared (a) that every man has a right to live, whether he works or not; (b) that since " the capitalistic class " has a monopoly of the wherewithal, unemployed should be paid the basic wage for doing nothing; (c) that a sufficient sum to support the unemployed in comfort should be raised by adding 5 per cent, to the wages bill of each employer, such percentage to be in the nature of a super tax.. .'■..-
No allowance is to be made for the obvious result of such a policy. If i man can earn the basic wage for doing nothing, why should he work in order toi earn it? Similarly; " when employers find themselves bankrupt as a result of the policy, who is pay their "unemployed" basic wage? ,
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1922, Page 8
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180PAY FOR DOING NOTHING Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1922, Page 8
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