INCREASED DUTY ASKED.
MINISTER WANTS AMMUNITION. Wf»* " ■ — By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 21, 1.5 a.m. Melbourne, June 20. A deputation asked Mt. Tudor, Federal Minister for Customs, for increased Customs duties. He replied that before he prepared a scheme of revision of duties he must learn the amount of capital invested in the industries, and the proportion of wages paid to the cost of the finished article. Let them tell him how much capital was invested,; then he would have something to go upon. He added that tne workers will want to know how much capital is invested because they will be expected to Inake profit* on that capital, and tbeir wages will be judged accordingly.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 333, 21 June 1911, Page 5
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115INCREASED DUTY ASKED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 333, 21 June 1911, Page 5
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