WAGES AND PRICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18087, 11 May 1922, Page 4

WAGES AND PRICES.

Sir,—l have been much surprised to read about the fuss trade unionists axe makinsr about the paltry reduction in wages thev are asked to accept. But 1 think Mr.' Bloodworth -takes the cake for sheer impudence, when he states that it is the inefficiency of the employers and manufacturers that causes no profits to " made. On the contrary, it is the ridiculously high wagea paid since the war that have strangled" nearly every " i * , * tt Xj starved the farmers on the land, and kept the cost of living twice ss high as it need have been for the whole community, i am a retired builder, and probably mBloodwcrtb is a journeyman, so we botn know something of the building trade, ana I sav, without fear of contradition, that trouble is caused, not only by the high wages but bv the way "the carpenter puts in time on his jobs. For many months I have been living in a, returned «"<*i«r settlement, helping to keep one returned soldier on his selection. If Mr. Bloodworth would only do the same he wouio go back to Auckland a sadder and F e ™j)l*; a much wiser man. Wo get up at five o'clock, and it is often seven in the evening when the work is done, and for_tne merest pittance. Yet everything farmers have to buy is top price, and many of them are getting very near the breakers. 8M» thev complain very little, and.never UMDK of going on strike. Vetera*.