The Wages Question.
We now approach a subject of very great importance, and one on which, if extremes are to be avoided, right ideas are absolutely necessary. Wages, we are told, are fixed by free consent: and therefore the employer, when he pays what was agreed upon, has done his part and is not called upon for anything further The only way, it is said, in which injustice could happen would be if the master refused to pay the whole of the wages, or the workman would not complete the work undertaken ; when this happens the State should intervene, to see that each obtains his own— but not under any other circumstances. J
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 43, 31 July 1891, Page 9
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113The Wages Question. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 43, 31 July 1891, Page 9
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