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Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6409, 1 November 1923, Page 5

“Labor was not' out altogether for higher wages and shorter hours,” said the Rev. W. G. Monckton, in addressing the Anglican Synod at Auckland. Though it could not express itself in so many words, it really wanted a recognition of the dignity of labor —and workers struck to show their importance. And they did not want payment on a strictly “cost of living” basis, for in that they would sqc a parallel drawn between themselves and the animals. They wanted an interest in business, and not to be treated merely as machines.