NEW ZEALAND’S LEAD
WAGES AND HOURS Inquiry By United States Washington. June 15. Mrs Leila Plomfield. a former New Zealan'dier, and how a member of the New York State Council, giving evidence before a Congressional committee which is to report on the' administration’s * wages and 1 hours Bill, compared the measure with New Zealand's social legislation which, she said, resulted in-regiment ation and economic collapse. She assured the committee that lower wa-ges and longer hours provided the way for -increasing purchasing- pow-. er - is it “To depend on high wages . and short hours for prosper?: y is simply economic chloroform .and economic suicide,” she added. ; -i • Mr Black, a member of the House of Representatives, countered the statement with figures purporting to show ’that New Zealand’s legit.tion greatly benefited the Dominion
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 458, 16 June 1937, Page 5
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131NEW ZEALAND’S LEAD Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 458, 16 June 1937, Page 5
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