AN EMPLOYERS VIEW.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17552, 22 April 1919, Page 3

AN EMPLOYERS VIEW.

WELLINGTON. April 21

The seventh annual convention of the New Zealand Coach and Motor Vehicie Trades Industrial Association of Employers opened on Saturday. The delegates were accorded a civic reception by the Mayor. The president, Mr.W. J. Boon, addressing the delegates, said that whatever opinions 'might be held in regard to the best method of bringing down the lost of living, it was painfully evident thai'the only resu't of Parliament's hasty and ill-considered action as evidenced in the recent Arbitration Court award, had been to intensify an-.I absurdly complicate the problem. It was impossible to imagine tvhere the riot of wage-raising upon which the Court had been launched would end, but the main result undoubtedly would be to make the cost of living problem in its total scope and in its detail aspects mote than ever formidable and difficult of solution. One thing was evident, and that was that the workers, though not on a bare subsistence line, were not satisled with their share of the products of their labour.