Reduction of Wages
Sir, —Mr. Savage will not reduce wages; all ho will do is to take 450 or 50!) men who are earning £4 17s 6d a week on housing construction work ' and put them on another job where they earn £4 a week—quite a different thing. In these clays of rising costs, after paying his social security tax, such a man with a wife and two children will have £3 16s a week to support himself and his family and pay his transportation costs to a?)d from work. A physically fit man of 60 and his wife of the same age, with
no dependants, can together have £2 ' a week social security benefit and additional income up to £ I a week and their ownership of their dwelling will not affect their benefit. SOCIAL JUSTICE.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19998, 25 July 1939, Page 16
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136Reduction of Wages Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19998, 25 July 1939, Page 16
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