SINGLE AND MARRIED.
If the Women's League of New Zealand, the Welfare League, and a few other Leagues were to bring pressure to bear just now on tlie question of the wages and. salaries paid to single inon and women, they would do much to improve the economic conditions in the Dominion. It is safe to say that single men and women are being paid too much for the work they do at the present time. In many cases they are drawing £(5 and £7 per week, whereas before the war they were drawing only £3 and £4 per week. Their cost of living has probably increased from £1 to £1 10s per week, and their cost of clothing from 10s to £1 per week. They are thus from £2 to £ls per week better off to-day than they wore before the w&r. The married man, on the other hand, is in a very much worse position. If he has a family of five, his cost of living has increased by fully £3 per week (including rent), to say nothing of his clothing. The married man is, therefore, being made to suffer for the benefit of the singlo. Ro long as this state of things continues, tlio industrial conditions will never bo satisfactory.
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Wairarapa Age, 15 June 1920, Page 4
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213SINGLE AND MARRIED. Wairarapa Age, 15 June 1920, Page 4
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