RICH RICHER, POOR POORER
Since 1914, according to the Government Statistician's figures, the incomes over £250 a year had increased in the aggregate from £38,000,000 to £50,000,000—0r a rise of £20,000,000, said Mr. W. Nash (Labour candidate) at Day's Bay last night; and ho quoted figures to show that in the same period while the money wages of .the workers had increased, the purchasing-powor of the workers had actually decreased. Could there be, he ■ asked, anything more grossly unfair than such a position? The basic wage of the workers was about £4 a week, but there were 63 individuals with incomes of over £10,000 a year. But the Eeform Party, while in power, had all the time been cutting down the taxation on the
wealthy and keeping down the workers' wages, making "cuts" in the Public servants' salaries and so on.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 13
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141RICH RICHER, POOR POORER Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 13
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