THE COST OF LIVING
CONSIDERED BT KAILWAY OFFICERS' CONFERENCE. ■/■• By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunodin, September 5. The Railway Officers' Conference ed a motion endorsing the action of the Council of State Servants in its representations to the Government regarding reduction in the cost of living, and requesting tho council to urgo on the Government tho necessity of making a prompt practical effort to reduce the price of necessary household commodities. The conference considered that as Trere arbitrarily fixed, prices could also he arbitrarily fixed, and decided that if the Government failed to reduced the cost of living to a degree commensurate ivith the Tfase-earner's decreased spending power, it would.use its best endeavours to obtain an increase in tho salaries of lower-paid members.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3183, 6 September 1917, Page 6
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121THE COST OF LIVING Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3183, 6 September 1917, Page 6
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