WORKERS’ WAGES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19445, 3 November 1925, Page 7

WORKERS’ WAGES

<• THE RUMOURED ‘‘CUT.” MINISTER REPLIES TO MR. NASIf. REPUDIATION REITERATED. [Per Press Association.] GORE, Nov. 2. On being asked if he had anything to say regarding the Press Association report of Mr Nash’s remarks regarding the alleged intention of making a cut of 7s 6d in .workers’ wages, and the statement that he was responsible for the Labour Department’s report in ’which the “possible method” was discussed, the Hon. G. J. Anderson, Labour Minister, said hT" had merely to repeat what he had previously made quite plain: That the report was compiled by the Secretary of Labour, that it had been the practice for him to discuss Labour problems in that report; that these discussions did not bind either the Minister or the Government to adopt them; that he personally had never held the opinion that either Mr Piddington’s scheme or Mr Rowley’s variation w’crc practicale; that the subject as presented in the report had ; not been discussed by Cabinet nor re;commended by himself; and that Mr (Nash. was merely endeavouring to make | political capital out of the Secretary iof Labour’s academical discussion. He 'personally was not responsible for the report. It having been so emphatically repudiated by the Prime Minister and himself, the honourable course was for Messrs Holland and Nash to acknowledge the fact that they had !>cen wrong in their statements and allegations.