WAGE REDUCTIONS
MR. FORSYTH- QUESTIONED
"Are y.ou in favour of tliu 10 jier.| cent, cut'".'" was a question put to Mi.' T. Forsyth, Coalition candidate for! Wellington East," at liis meeting at lioseneatfr last evening.
Mr. Fmsyth^ replied that ho was on the'City'Council'at tho beginning of tFic year when a big deficit had lo be
faced. "He. urged that in certain cases members, of the outside staff-should be exempt from any wage reduction,'and he took the council to a division on the point. "Ask Mr. Semple how he voted on that occasion." (Hear, hear,' and applause.) : - ■ Mr.Forsyth Added- that «s a member of the Staff Committee of tho council he had urged that tho annual increments should be put on to salaries before the cut was imposed. "I want you to ask Mr. Semple how he voted on that, too," he said. "I have never stood for low wages. I was an employer for twenty-five years and I always paid the best wages because I believed I could get the best work out of men who wero pajd what they were worth."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1931, Page 11
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WAGE REDUCTIONS
Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1931, Page 11
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