POLICY DEMANDS
RAILWAY WORKERS ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT WAGE INCREASE OF 10/(By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Thursday Criticism of the Government demands for sweeping changes in policy were included in a resolution passed at a special meeting of the Otahuhu branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. The resolution was as follows: “That the Otahuhu branch, representing 1000 railwaymen, records the opinion that the Government’s present administration is not in the interests of the workers of New Zealand. We therefore demand: “(1) That owing to statements made by manufacturers, wholesalers and so on that the cost of living will further increase, a rise of at least 10s a week be given. “(2) That the Government take immediate steps to see that real wages are not in future negated by a rise in the cost of living. “(3) That conscription of wealth, including all profits and all incomes over £SOO, be instituted. “(4) That the shilling in the pound taxation be removed and the Federation of Labour proposals substituted. “(5) That Messrs Coates and Hamilton be removed from the War Cabinet. “(6) That all subsidies to vested interests be stopped.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21198, 22 August 1940, Page 8
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