THE WAGES QUESTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 38, 14 February 1914, Page 4

THE WAGES QUESTION.

The Daily Citizen discusses the wages question and arrives at the same conclusion as the three professors of economics did concerning the strike in Leeds, that there is no such thing as a final settlement of it, because the standard of living and the conditions of work must change. “If,” it continues, “the plain reason here stated were accepted and acted upon hy employers of labor, the present regime of strikes and lockouts would come to an end. Strikes and lockouts arise and industry goes creaking and groaning along in confusion and stress because the whole problem of wages is ravaged by unreason. Every demand for revision of wages is looked upon tis unjustified and a tyrannical attack on the right of profit-taking. Every settlement of a wages dispute is considered final, and the refusal to consider it final is held up as a reproach. If employers would look upon a wages question purely as a business proposition, to be dealt with like any other business proposition, there would at once arise a confidence in their treatment of these matters which does not now exist, and few disputes or readjustments would come to open rupture,”