WAGE REDUCTION.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20179, 6 March 1931, Page 11

WAGE REDUCTION.

A LABOUR ALTERNATIVE. (rsiss ASSOCttTIQH TXLroaUI.) AUOKLANB, March 5: A surtax on incomes, preferably ' OP individual i«f!QP}fiß, W the raising of an internal reconstruction 'loan, with a subscription compylsory for people ,-of means, the loan to be used in developing approved primary a,nd secondary ipdußtries, were advocated by Mr M. J. Savage, Deputy-leader of the Labour Party, a's alternatives to tfoe Government's financial proposal. Mr Savage s44r esse( i & crowded meeting in tfye Town Hall, which- «ndorse4 his proposals ftfid con4pP"»od tfoft wagp reduction measures as a" class tax which would strike a fatal blwr i?t trfitje a&4 industry.

TEACHERS* RESOLUTION. teh 5. . Thp Nelson branch of the Eduaatipnal Ipßtjtuto passed a pollution expressing its willingness to shoulder ft fair share of any . sacrifice wfticl l way bp necessary tp ipliov? the present financial situation, but strongly protesting against thp excessive amount of the proposed reduction qf tic salaries of the tflftpbjng profession. , , PROPOSAL. NOT F^YOpRED.

(WW issoci^p* V tytwph 5. The (Mr >yho is president of the Municipal Association, when "interviewed regarding tlie propose] tft Reduce the wages of municipal pmpjpypfes, said that he not pupport the move unless tie. costs of -whekt and wheat products werQ first reduced. The claim for import duties on wheat wa» unjustified, qg a majority of 'tjio community wpyp ' penalised to benefit Canterbury farmers. 'The Goy? eminent.* should seriously aonqidpr the of duty, before ordering a wages cut,! l,lthe question woqld be considered by the executive of cipal Asapciation next month.