THE PROBLEM OF LIVING.
VIEWS OF LABOUR LEADER.
FIXING HIGHER STANDARD.
THE PEOPLE MUST RETRENCH.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 9.40 p.m.) LONDON. Mar. 3.
Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, speaking at Watford, said industrial life for the past four years had been carried on on borrowed capital. Was it any wonder that large masses of the people believed the process could continue? Until this fallacy was removed we would never view things in their true perspective. The people would have to do what the nation must do, that was, retrench.
The war had rightly created a demand on the part of the workers for a higher standard of living. The real difficulty of the moment was fixing a permanent standard, owing to the abnormal cost of living. Therefore it was necessary to resort to temporary expedients to deal with the abnormal situation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17100, 4 March 1919, Page 7
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