PIECE-WORK ADVOCATED
GETTING BEST RESULTS OF MINISTER (Per •jE'rosa Acsoriatioii.) WELLINGTON, last night 1 “If you’ll take a tip from me, you ought to put the men on piece-work, so that we won’t have the spectacle that we have had all over New Zealand, of men leaning on their shovels waiting for 4 o'clock,” said the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, speaking to local body representatives at a conference held at Wellington to-day. to discuss proposals for placing in useful work the men now on sustenance.
Mr. Semple urged that every effort should be made to see that value was obtained for the public money spent. “If the men are getting a decent
wage, you should see that they do a decent day’s -work,” he said. He was not blaming the men, he added. Many
of them had probably never worked
before, had hot had the opportunity to learn to work; had had no incentive to work, or had forgotten how -to work; but If that were allowed to continue when their wages were increased, their morale would be destroyed.
My experience is that if you giVe a man something to work for, he 11 work all right, unless you get the double-barrelled imposter, and the thing to do with him is to dump him instantly.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 9
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