A NEEDS WAGE.
The Hon. Dr Findlay, in his advocacy of a “ needs wage,” finds no surpporter in the Hon. J. Anstey, who told a Tiinaru Herald representative that he had asked for, but did not get, a definition of that term. A‘‘needs wage” as a standard, said Mr Anstey, was an impossibility, because it must vary with every family, so as to be impossible of standardisation. For a man with a family his needs increase with every new cradleful and with every rise in the price of bread or boots. The Labour men in both Houses again, were opposed to the ‘‘exertion wage,” saying that it would be used as a ‘‘driving” or ‘‘pacemaking ” device. Mr Anstey, however, looking over the world at large and throughout history, could see no instance of a people making progress without the incentive provided by reward for individual effort. It was too plainly an element of human nature to be denied. There must be room provided for the play of a reasonable amount of human selfishness, and it was this principle, applied with justice, that ensured progress for the individual and for the community.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 423, 13 August 1908, Page 2
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191A NEEDS WAGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 423, 13 August 1908, Page 2
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