A CONTRADICTION
INCREASED POSTAL CHARGES
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. ■ Expressing the Manufacturers' Association's view of the financl proposals-, the president, Mr. Kindley, congratulated the Prime Ministor on relinquishing the false position of maintaining wages above an economic level. He stated, however, that it was not a sound policy to increase postal charges, which seemed in contradiction to the professed effort to reduce ovorhead charges. A spokesman for the three trade unions said that the "bottom dog" was being compolled to make a sacrifice, while on the other hand there was only an appeal to mortgagees and money interests to reduce charges. The proposal to review awards was regarded as a breach of faith and a suspension of contract. It was a case of compulsion for the workers and a request to the moneyed shopkeeper. He stated that there would bo loss money circulated, and the small stores would suffer. It was not likely that Mr. Forties's appeal to lenders to ease charges would bo acceded to.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1931, Page 9
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168A CONTRADICTION Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1931, Page 9
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