WARNING TO AUSTRALIA
LOWER WAGES CERTAIN. I United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) MELBOURNE, Feb. 13. Judge Beeby in the Arbitration Court to-day issued a warning, in view of the fall in prices of wool and other primary produce, that a general reconstruction in Australia was inevitable.
The unions must realise that lower wages were almost certain, and Judge Beeby suggested that smaller profits would probably follow. Everything pointed to the fact that the present depression was not temporary, but the result of post-war inflation.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 February 1930, Page 11
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