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Maoriland Worker, Volume 11, Issue 475, 21 April 1920, Page 7

A wage is not a salary; it is not even pay; nor is it remuneration. Salaries and pay and remuneration are for individual services rendered; but the wage is the market price of a commodity called labor. ~ , This labor is Inside your bodies and In your- bodies and in your arms and hands and legs and muscles, just as minerals are found in the earth or fruit on a tree. Being discovered inside you, the men who want to exploit it, precisely as they would ex-; ploit any other commodity, but It from you as they buy ore from landlords or com from farmers. If it be scarce, then the price of the labor commodity is high, If it be plentiful, Its price is low.—S. G. Hobson, In "National Guilds."