'NOT ON MULBERRY BUSHES.’

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13174, 5 February 1936, Page 5

'NOT ON MULBERRY BUSHES.’

MR. SEMPLE SPEAKS ON MONEY.

STRAIGHT TALK TO •SCROUNGERS.”

Electric Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, Last Night.

A declaration that all men employed on public works jobs must join the New Zealand Workers" Union and that any grievances they had w ould be settled through representatives of that union was made bailie Minister of Public Works (Hon. R*. Semple) while addressing the men at the Mangere air base. Mr Semple stated that this would expedite matters both for the department and for the men and would avoid any stoppages on individual jobs owing to dissatisfaction. Mr Semple told the men of the decision he had made regarding the introduction of the 40-hour week and equal pay for single and married men, also for the Maori and pakeha. It was a vicious system, he said, where men did the same job working side by side, for different rewards. Tf extra, assistance had to be given to married men it should be done and would be one by amendments to the family allowance provisions. He had given instructions that an agreement should be arrived at concerning the question of a minimum wage and this would be ready for signature as soon as Parliament had made the necessary legislation for the introduction of the reforms he proposed. “All this requires money,” said Mr Semple, “and remember money does not grow on mulberry bushes! The Finance Mi mister cannot create mone y wjth a wave of hi* hand