COST OF LIVING.
TUP FAT BY RAHAVAYMEN. Dunedin, Feb. 2(1. Tim employees at the Hillside Railway 'Workshops held a mass meeting at noon to-day, and passed the following 1 resolution: ■ “Thai we, the workers at Hillside, having observed Ibo laws oi the land, and having stood loyally by the Government: in power, demand immediate redress in the matter of the cost: of living, preferably by reducing the cost of commodities, or otherwise from time to time increasing the rate of pay according to (be purchasing power pi the sovereign. The present inaction of the powers that be is bringing nearer the time when notice mast be taken of the fact that direct action is more successful than trying to reason with persons who will not net on logically proved facts. Me pledge ourselves to loyally -support our executive in any direct move they may sec lit to take.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2096, 28 February 1920, Page 3
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148COST OF LIVING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2096, 28 February 1920, Page 3
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