FORTY-HOUR WEEK
Sir, —Tho New Zealand Welfare League will find it difficult to justify its name if it cannot appreciate tho argument for a reduction in the number of hours of work. Surely all who have tho welfare of New Zealand at heart will agree that it is not beyond our capability and power of organisation to arrange our own working conditions. What our wages aro iu Now Zealand does not affect in tho least our ability to produce necessary surpluses for export. Wages and prices being harmonised. it is the simplest matter of all to provide money-tickets or certificates of service. Our money is our business and other nations aro not in tho least concerned whether wo pay high wages and arrange high prices for our goods and services. Wo should not receive one penny less or more for our goods abroad because we organised our industry to make use of all employable labour and intelligence. I'kteb Met,lor.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21471, 20 April 1933, Page 13
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