MORE PAY, LESS WORK
THROTTLING OF INDUSTRY
COMMERCIAL MAN'S HOMILY
A SAFEGUARD AGAINST
DISASTER.
(DOTTED TRESS ASSOCIATION—COPSRISHT.)
(Received 29th August, 10.30 a.m.)
BBISBANE, This Day.
Mr. James Allen, retiring president of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce, in an address to the chamber, said the present general tendency was to throttle industry and lessen production by shorter hours and increased costs. Work was looked upon as an unnecessary evil. Higher wages were demanded for less output, to be spent on amusement or unproductive idleness.
One of the greatest safeguards against disaster, he said, would be the holding of bonds, in small sums by the people generally ; and the discouragement of the acquirement of large amounts by a privileged few.
Theories about the basic wage and child endowment were beautiful ideas; but they could not materialise except by hard labour or increased production brought about by the close co-operation of unskilled labour, competent leadership, and capital. . It seemed clear that fresh burdens could not be carried without disaster to the wage-earner and ruin to many industries. The community could not go living on loans to enable it to pay high wages for lessened production.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 7
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192MORE PAY, LESS WORK Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 7
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