The Labour Question. —Touching the labour question a Spectator that reached us by the last mail says : —The public is already beginning to learn that as. it pays for every thing it must pay for the increase of wages and shorter hours now being demanded by labourers all over the Kingdom. . The journeymen bakers have obtained their re* quest for 60 hours a week as their limittof labour, but the master bakers of South London have raised their prices one halfpenny a quartern. Similarly the gas Btokers of Leeds recently demanded terms which involved additional expenditure to the Gas Company of £IO,OOO a year. To recover that amount the price of gas has been raised 4d per 1000 ft. It is a good thing for the people to learn by experience, that there is no bottomless bag out of which labourers may extract money except tho people’s pockets. Mr Barns is an able man, but he can no more raise wages without raising prices than he can get more hay out of a field than there is grass in it.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 933, 17 January 1890, Page 2
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180Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 New Zealand Mail, Issue 933, 17 January 1890, Page 2
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