COST OF LIVING

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 31 January 1933, Page 6

COST OF LIVING

i INCREASED WAGES URGED. { 1 EXCHANGE AND PRICES. j Opposition to the raising off the ex- f change rate to 25 per cent was voiced c at' the meeting held at the Trades j! Hall at Wellington on Sunday even- j ing, when a motion was passed, enter- j' ing an emphatic protest against the - action of the Government in inereas- j. ing the rate off exchange. The increase, j. it was. stated, had been, passed on the public, thereby .increasing the cost (r of living to those least able to bear it j (states' the “Dominion” report). ' i “We further protest against the action of the Government in making the j increase without first consulting l Par- * x liaonent, and call upon the Govern- , c;

ment to issue- a general order increasing the wages- ctf all workers by at least 25 per cent to recompense them for the increase in the cost- off. living,-’ the motion, continued. “Further, this meeting is off the opinion that the Government should resign and place the issue before the electors of the country.” Mr P. Fraser, M.P., who presided, .said that, the meeting was a. preliminary to a number off others which would be held in the near future. With the other two speakers. Mr J. Tucker, president off the Trades- and! Labour Council, and Mir R. Semple. M.P., he enlarged upo'n the Labour Party’s view of the rate of exchange and its results, as expressed by Mr H. E. Holland in the house.