Impossible to Provide Home, So Young People Do Not Wed
WAGES AND LESSENED WORK
Reed. 9.52 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. DEFORE the Child Endowment Commission, evidence was given by representatives of the Trades and Labour Council, that the predominant feeling among young men and women was to avoid marriage, because the wages received made it impossible to
provide a home and maintain the same standard of comfort as was enjoyed while they were single. Instances were cited to show how
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modern machinery was increasing production and replacing men. It was stated that an oxy-cutter displaced from three to ten boilermakers and their mates. The Jacques pinching table could do the work of ten men. i A spray-painting machine for motor . bodies displaced 76 painters, and a steam-shovel tended by 12 men did the work of 200 men. Every pneumatic tool displaced from six to twelve men. • —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 220, 6 December 1927, Page 11
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