PAY FOR DOING NOTHING
VISIONARY LABOR SCHEME. Sydney, March L The Labor Council of New South Wates has put forward many Arc?' r '” suggestions for the betterment of uw but none so beautifully simple as one endorsed during the week. The council has solemnly and sincerely declared: (a) That every man has a right to live, whether he works or not; (b> that since “the capitalistic class” has a monopoly of the wherewithal unemployed should be paid the basic wage for doing nothing) (c) that a sufficient sum to support the unemployed in comfort should be raised by adding 5 per cent, to the wages bill of each employer, such percentage to be in the nature of a super-tax. No allowance is to be made for the obvious result of such a policy. If a man can earn the basic wage for doing nothing, why should he work in order to earn it? Similarly, when employers find themselves bankrupt as a result of the policy who ia to pay them the “unemployed” baric wage?
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1922, Page 5
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174PAY FOR DOING NOTHING Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1922, Page 5
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