STANDARD WAGES
much for 40 hours of work as for 44. "The oft-repeated but ill-advised and unproved assertion that the country can afford to pay higher wages, however, has persuaded the general public that the theory should be put to a practical test and has created among wage-earners an equally unreasoned expectation of further increases in wages." says Mr. Prime. "For these reasons, the rates of wages I propose are justifiable only as an insurance, for a considerable period, of contentment among the workers and of stabilisation of costs in industry—the two conditions that are essential for the success of such industrial experiments as New Zealand has •undertaken."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 12
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108STANDARD WAGES Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 12
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