"VICIOUS PRINCIPLE”
| UNEMPLOYMENT TAX UNIONISTS’ DRASTIC VIEW CONDEMNATION OF PROPOSAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 26. A resolution was carried unanimously at a General Labourers’ Union meeting last night protesting against the decision in the Unemployment Bill to levy a fiat tax of £1 10s annually on the male section of the population to relieve unemployment. “We consider this proposal is unjust and unfair to the minimum wage worker whose annual earnings are £l3O, and that it is obviously unjust to ask him to pay £1 10s annually, the same as persons with incomes ranging U]i to £20,000 a year.” It was considered that as the workers were not responsible for the unemployment problem, they should not he unjustly taxed to provide against its effects on the community, and an appeal is to> lie made to Labour organisations, both industrial and political, to' “oppose this vicious principle, and to Labour members in Parliament to fight the proposal tooth and nail.”
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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