DOMINION NEWS.
COST OF LIVING. Invercargill, Last Night. In response to the request of the district Labor Council, the Mayor convened a public meeting, which was attended by about: a hundred people to-night, to discuss the increased cost of living. A resolution was carried viewing with alarm the continued increase which is a national calamity, making for inefficiency and physical degeneration of the present and future generations of workers, and calling on the Government to make such reductions that the efficiency of workers and rising generations may be assured and maintained. Napier, Last Night. At a very large meeting of the Napier branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, held in the library to-night, the following resolution was passed: (1) That this meeting desires to protest against the Government's inability to deal with the cost of living question; and (2) takes strong exception to the discrimination in granting Is per day war bonus to married men only, and is not prepared to accept less than the original demand of 2s per day increase in wages to all railway men in the second division of the service, from April, 1917.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1917, Page 5
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190DOMINION NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1917, Page 5
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