AMBITION STIFLED
BY PATERNAL GOVERNMENTS PIECEWORK AND SELFRELIANCE. BETTER THAN CHILD ENDOWMENT. Sydney. November 19. William Myhill, secretary of the Metal Trades Empmloyers’ Association, giving -evidence before the Child Endowment Commission, declared there would he no necessity for introduction of the system if the workers would agree to the adoption of piecework, or payment by results, to which union leaders claimed they were opposed. Payments by results would increase the standard of living of workers and decrease th© general cost of living by increasing, production. From his experience in seven countries he had no hesitation in saying that once the workers had lasted the fruits of payment bv reults they would never give it u n He said it would be difficult to conceive a man not earning more than the basic wage on piecework. Witness contended that employees were apt to look at the Government far too much. There were many opportunities in industry for the worker to better his position but, if he knew the Government would look after l.is dependents if he were not earning sufficient, there was a tendency for ambition to be stifled.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 21 November 1927, Page 8
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188AMBITION STIFLED Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 21 November 1927, Page 8
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