WAGE INCREASE
"UNSOUND AND UNFAIR"
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
PALMERSTON N., This Day.
After discussing the matter from a number of angles, the Manawatu Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union yesterday concluded that the granting .of a 5 per cent, rise in award wages was unsound in principle and unfair in its application. The Government had failed, it was held, in its promise to stabilise prices and had prejudiced the call for increased production by further embarrassing the farmer with increased costs. The farmer was answering the call 100 per cent in increased production and was not considering extra hours of work, and so he expected other sections of the community to do likewise as it was a national war effort. It was explained that the farming community was not looking for increased prices, but if other sections obtained them then, in the interests of the industry itself, farmers and farm workers should share in the increase.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 12
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158WAGE INCREASE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 12
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