WAGES AND PRICES
Si r —I fail to see the point of the "high wage fallacy" quoted by Jlr. il. 1). Ac land. Ford and Lever organised labour and paid- the highest wages, sold at the lowest prices and revolutionised business in their lines Ihere aro employers who would sweat their employees and pay starvation wages if they could get away with it. 1 his, our Government is out to stop. We are to have wages restored to the level, but commodities are leaping in price and the wage-earner will be no better off in pocket. Johannesburg today prospers and money is flowing uKe water in the streets of Chnstchurch. All tradesmen are drawing good pay. The wage standard is also high m Canada and the United States. Companies like the Canadian Pacific Railway, take the money off the people and give it back to them again in the shape ot hotels, ships, parks and playgrounds and swimming pools and numerous other things. But it pays a real good living wage. I*** Lizzie.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22481, 27 July 1936, Page 12
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