Ambition Stifled
CHILD ENDOWMENT PLAN
Payment By Results Urged
By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Received 11.15 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. WILLIAM MYHILL, secretary of the Metal Trades Employers’ Association, giving evidence before the Child Endowment Commission, declared that there would be no necessity for the introduction of the system if the workers would agree to the adoption of piecework or payment by results, to which the union leaders claimed they were opposed.
T>AYMENTS by results would increase •*- the standard of living of the workers, and decrease the general cost of living by increasing production. From his experience in seven countries, he had no hesitation in saying that once the workers tested the fruits of payment by results, they would never give it up. He said it would be difficult to con-
ceiv© a man not earning more than the basic wage on piecework. The witness contended that the employees were apt to look to the Government for too much. There were many opportunities in industry for the worker to better his position, but if he knew the Government would look after his dependents if he was not earning sufficient, there would be a tendency for ambition to be stifled. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 9
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200Ambition Stifled Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 9
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