EXPENSIVE FIRES.

Free Lance, Volume XIII, Issue 671, 10 May 1913, Page 8

EXPENSIVE FIRES.

Wages Qo Up, but Coal Climbs " Quicker. - ill INTER is on us. and up goes theWM,;. price of State coal. Up, accordingly, goes the price of all other coal. eventually, goes gas. Up goes everything. Now,: why dom State coal go up? The Minister of Minesexplains. Because the cost of .production and distribution has increased. S/Why does the cost of production and distribution increase ? Because the workers, by this means and that, persist in arbitrarily edging-up their wages beyond the natural standard; with the resul't> again, that up and up and up goes everytning.else—up that far, and a. little more. It is the; thing.the worker never lepras, and yet a thing so obvious—arbitrarily increase-the cost of labour, and infallibly there arises a somewhat greater increasein the cost of products.