WORK AND WAGES.
EFFECT ON AMERICA
(Press Assn.— -By Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received May 28. 10.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 27. James J. Hill, speaking at the National Foreign, Trade Convention, waxned the United States against following Britain's lead m allowing Labor unions to fix the scales of wages, thus enabling Germany to make successful attacks on British comttierce. The bprdona placed on business m England were producing widespread industrial unrest, and a similar, effect wa« likely m the United States. It would be unable to hold the market against competitors while maintaining wages scales • which did . not admit of her meeting competitors^ prices, and simultaneously offered no inducements to capital to exploit new fields of development.-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13392, 28 May 1914, Page 3
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