A PROTEST
AGAINST WAGE REDUCTIONS COALITION GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED. LABOUR AND CIVIL SERVICE RESOLUTION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, March 30. A combined meeting of the Labour and Civil Services executives unanimously carried a resolution opposing “the Government’s futile and depressing policy of endeavouring to balance the Budget by reducing wages and salaries, thereby further depressing industry and accentuating the already desperate unemployment problem.”
The resolution continued: “We are not prepared to sacrifice the natural rights of our wives and children to a sufficiency of the necessaries of life for the sake of an experiment by legislators who appear ignorant of even the elementary laws of economic science. We know that the country cannot regain equilibrium so long as industry is being checked and business stifled and we are prepared to use every means in our power to defeat the insane policy that, for party purposes and against the country’s interests, is being prosecuted by the Coalition Government.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 89, 30 March 1932, Page 7
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156A PROTEST Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 89, 30 March 1932, Page 7
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