THE MINIMUM WAGE
LONDON, July 18. The annual report of the General Federation of Trade Unions says : " Any fiscal system which will secure a wage sufficiently in excess of subsistence rates, permitting reasonable provision for illness and old age, will receive our intelligent consideration. Let the Slate guarantee a minimum wage, based upon prices and human requirements. State control of production and imports may be considered, but trade unionists will not tolerate 'attempts to increase the powers of exaction which monopolists at present possess."
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Otago Witness, Issue 3254, 26 July 1916, Page 16
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84THE MINIMUM WAGE Otago Witness, Issue 3254, 26 July 1916, Page 16
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