WAGE REDUCTIONS
VOICE OF OPPOSITION
PRODUCTION AND MARKET
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The executive of tho New Zealand Typographical Association has issued a statement viewing with grave concern the demand of tbo Employers' Federation for wages reduction. Tho demand is characterised as a step on tho road to coolie level, acting as an incentive to other countries in a vicious struggle for markets and to drive- the workers still further down in an attempt to capture an already glutted limited market. Tho hope of increased consumption in these markets is dubbed as illusionary, since in thoso countries served, the purchasing power has been steadily reduced to subsistence level. The statement concludes: "Employees are awakening to the need for encouragement of the evident possibility of the local market through greater purchasing power and consumption and maintaining higher wages. The introduction of the seven-hour day would offer a practical, if partial solution.''
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 10
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152WAGE REDUCTIONS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 10
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