HIGHER WAGES LESS EMPLOYMENT
To the Editor ot " The Tlmaru Herald " Sir,—After reading the Dominion award for shop assistants in last Friday’s issue of your paper, I thought it read very good for those persons who worked under the award. But since then my opinion has altered a great deal, as the business firms are putting off assistants as they cannot pay the high wages. If a 5/- per week increase had been granted, things would have been different, but now assistants are being put off, it means less money to spend, and what is to become of the assistants between 16 and 18 years? It means their parents have to keep them, as they will be unable to obtain a position, so what use are the higher wages? Hoping some abler pen than mine will take the matter up.—l am, etc., NOT A SHOP ASSISTANT. Timaru. September 28.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21154, 29 September 1938, Page 11
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