LABOUR FINANCES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 148, 15 February 1932, Page 5

LABOUR FINANCES

(Press. Assn

grave concern t I »i v's- • • u. r\ i ; mofte tax is better than 4 another wages cut Wr4'-i MR. LANG'S ATTITUDE

. — By Telegraph— Copyrlght).

i '" """ Rec.' Feb. 14, 5.5 p.m. " ■» " SYDNEY,' Sunday. I The "Sydney Sun"' says the State" Labour cau'cus isr gravely cbncerned owing to the cqndition of- its financesj an4 the prospect of an increase in \ the1 wage tax from ls to 2s- in- the £. As 'an "b'ffset tb-th'is, the* Gbverninent may ' ho'ntniUe "to f uphbld ah ' applicaition to' the* Arbitratm'ii' Cburt for* a revision of'*the 'basib "wage." ** " * , " It is** understood,' states the journall thht'the'Pfemier, Mr." J.*T. Lan'g, takes the vi'eW "that it is better to'ask the, b'asic- whge-bal'her to pay anoth'ei4 4s to tAe Gbvernme'nt thah t'o permit" anothe'r ' reductibn 'ili "'wa'ge's, "which' would "krg'ejy benefit employers."1"" . Those who" diffei* from* Mr. ' L'ang, • coiiteAd" that if Wage's Were11 reduced • T'-i * •• . .. *

in accordance with the fall in the ', cost' of living, a big handicap would be removed from industry- in New South "Wales and enipioyment would be increased. -• 1 The Labour Party is now in con- , f erence -'in* Sydney, but the press, except 'the Lahour organs, are exclud- , ed from the sitting. r»— ■* ' — —