CONTRASTS.
TO THE EDITOR
Sir, —The contrast between two items in last night’s ‘ Star ’ is rather interesting. You report that the three sons of a Patutahi farmer are working day and night over three shifts in an endeavour to complete the preparations of land for the sowing of spring crops in case they are called for military service. In the next column we read that the Hillside workers passed the following resolution : “That we request the Government to ignore the representations of reactionary individuals and organisations to abolish the 40-honr week, and that we have only contempt for those who would use the war situation as a means of filching from tho workers those conditions that they now enjoy.” Then we have the Government professing that there must bq no profiteering, and yet the workmen at the aerodrome are making £lO a week while the men who go there to be trained and risk their lives in our defence get 7s a day. Evidently only one class can profiteer.—l am, etc., September 19. Perplexed.
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Evening Star, Issue 23376, 20 September 1939, Page 14
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174CONTRASTS. Evening Star, Issue 23376, 20 September 1939, Page 14
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