SAAR EMPLOYER
TO LIVE ON WORKER’S PAY.
SAARBRUCKEN, April 14
A novel way of convincing: an employer that the wages he pays are inadequate has been adopted by the Saarbrucken Police.
'flic employer, named t'berlierrn, was arrested and charged with “unsocial activity” by under-paying his workers.
While in prison he will bo fed for approximately 2 marks (2/-i a day, the wages he paid to iiis workers. The police say he should consider himself lucky, us he expected his workers to house ami feed not only themselves but also their families on such a wage. He will remain i'.. prison on this diet until he expresses a desire to meet the “Labour Trustee," and arrange for better wages, for his workers.—British United Press.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 7
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