PAY FOR DOING NOTHING
VISIONALY LABOUR SCHEME. The Labour Council of New South Wales has put forward ’many Arcadian suggestions for the betterment of the workers, but none so beautifully simple as one endorsed during the week (writes a Sydney correspondent under date March 1). The council has solemnly and sincerely declared: —(a) That every man has a right to live, whether he works or not;*(b) that since “the capitalistic class” has a monoply of the wherewithal unemployed should be paid the basic wage for doing nothing: (c) that a sufficient sum to support the unemployed in comfort should be raised by adding 5 per cent, to the wage bill of cm eh employer, such percentage to be in the nature of a super tax. No allowance is to he made for x the obvious result of such a policy. If a nmn can earn the basic wage for doing nothing, why should he work in order to earn it Similarly when employers find themselves bankrupt as a result of the policy, who is to pay them “unemployed” basic wage?
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2435, 30 May 1922, Page 2
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180PAY FOR DOING NOTHING Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2435, 30 May 1922, Page 2
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