THE WAGES INCREASE
Sir, —I would like some space to endorse the letter in last Wednesday's issue over the nom-de-plumr' 'Farmer.' I also read ihe two articles referred to, 'Wages Increase' and 'Stoical Calm' and I was as disgusted as your correspondents It is indeed a pity that local body labourers—or any other section of thee ommunity— should' ask for a wages increase, at a time when not only Great Britain but this country as well faces an extreme danger. This is not a time for sectional differences. If it were, we primary producers could lay a fair claim to some consideration.
Some day, probably in the vague 're-construction' after the war, people will realise that the prosperity and well-toeing of the farmers, the primary producers, is the foundation for the country's economic stan dard. The thing is elementary, really, but it is essential that the Government also shoulcl realise this basic fact and not strangle the industry which makes the country while pandering to those who see only the immediate . benefits of what, after all,, is only termed a 'wages increase.' Yours etc,. FAKMER. . September i7Ui.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 214, 18 September 1940, Page 4
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187THE WAGES INCREASE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 214, 18 September 1940, Page 4
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