UNEMPLOYMENT
SPEECH BY MR. HOLLAND
WAGE "CUT" PREDICTED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association ) INVERCARGILL, This Day. Mr. H. E. Holland, Leader of tho Opposition, addressed a crowded meeting in Victoria Hall last night. He referredto tho land question, rural advances tho timber industry,- and the increase in tho bnnk rato.
Regarding unemployment, he said that the Dominion was getting back to tho position of tho 'eighties with its soup kitchens and tho exodus to Australia. He predicted that in the. Old Country thore was going to be a big cutting down of wages and that it was coming in New Zealand, too, probably after the next election. The wage workeTs had to realise this, and if they did not they were, foolish. Ho contended that tho Government had betrayed tho peoplo and that the Labour Party was tho only party which considered the intorosts of tho.people as a wholo. Ho was accorded a vote of thanks.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 8
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