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PRICES AND WAGES WELLINGTON, This Day. “If wc control prices wc arc controlling the necessity for increasing wages,” said the Prime Minister. Mr M J. Savage, to-day. commenting on a cable from London expressing misgiving on the part of banking circles at the apparent absence of wages control sijnuUatteous:y with price control. i 'Already wc have suggested to those who arc interested in wages conditions in New Zealand that they should go easy on making demands, and when wc are talking like that we want tu tec that machinery is provided so that prices arc not raised against those whose wages arc expected, for the time being, to remain somewhere about what they arc. "There arc quite a number of people in the community who have no reason to feel that the limit has been leached as far as wages arc concerned, some of whose demands for increases cannot lightly be turned aside, but speaking generally, we have asked for stability, on the one hand from those who are controlling prices, and on the other from those who are making the demands for higher wages. These sentiments can have cnly a temporary application while wc are dealing with u difficult situation, but a situation that was inevit-
able tu anyone who did any serious thinking.”—P.A. message.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 May 1939, Page 10
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