THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Wages For Unemfeoyko. They could not pay standard wages for relief work, said Mr Coates. It could be done if they went into a wholesale borrowing policy, but their last state would be worse than the first, and in the end would create more distress among the people they were trying to help. Unemployment insurance was not the right solution to the problem, as could be seen by the effects of its operations in Queensland and New South Wales. The moment they adopted unemployment insurance, the moment a man paid money into that fund, he said, 'every man employed on that work must get a standard rate of pay because he had helped to create it. It had not provided solution. Unemployment conditions were worse in those countries than m New Zealand,
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1928, Page 4
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136THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1928, Page 4
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