THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Trusts ahd High Protection - . '‘lt is susceptible of convincin'! proof that the high-paid labour of America —where it is high paid- is cheaper than the low-paid labour of the continent of Europe. Do you know that about 1)0 per cent of those who arc employed in labour in the United States are not employed in tlie '‘protected” industries, ami that their wages are almost without exception higher than the wages of those who are employed in the “protected” industries? There is no corner on carpenters, there is no corner on bricklayers, there is corner on scores of individual classes of skdled labourers; but there is a corner cn the poolers of fnrna'vs, there is a corner on the men who dive down into mines; they are in the grip of a controlling power which determines the market rate of wages in the United States. Only where labour is free is labour highly paid in America. When lam fighting monopolistic control, therefore, 1 am fighting for the liberty of American industry.” -—Woodrow Wilson.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1924, Page 2
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176THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1924, Page 2
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