A spectacular agitation to get “bricklayer’s wages” for office workers is creating considerable discussion in New York, America. The agitation is 1 being promoted by the Book-keepers’ and Stenographers’ Union, which is exhorting 500,000 “indigent clerks to join the ranks of the wealthy,” and by unionising themselves secure wages equal to those enjoyed by bakers, plasterers, printers, and carpenters. Bands' of young women typists and shorthandwriters invaded Wall Street, posting themselves at the doors of banks and other offices, where they distributed pamphlets comparing the affluent incomes earned by mechanics and labourers with tlie .pittances with which office workers are obliged to be conlent. IF YOU HAVE A HERD YOU NEED A m-V MILKING MACHINE. Ask the man who has a r.iozrat-Virtue Milking Machine installed. His answer always the same. He says “The Moffat* Virtue” has profited by the mistakes o I other makes. It is built especially to STAY RIGHT. Write for name or youf nearest agent to M-V Machinery Co., Ltd., Queen Street, Masterton. Local agents. Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Hamilton. . • -
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15898, 24 January 1924, Page 8
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