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Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1922, Page 7

Mr. Massey - - and - - The Workers Mr. WORKER! Has it ever occurred to yon to sit down quietly and ask yourself who have proved your best friends in the past? A GENERAL ELECTION IS IMMINENT. On the 7th December • you will be asked to choose in your electorate the candidate whose business it will be to represent your interests in Parliament should your vote secure his election. THERE AJIE THREE PARTIES IN THE FIELD and a few nondescripts—•'The Reformers, led by Mr. Massey, who to-day is universally recognised, outside of New Zealand at least, and by the great, majority of New Zealanders, as the outstanding figure in the politics of the Empire; the Lib-Labs., led by the soft-pedalling Mr. Wilford, and the Hollandite Labontes, Mr. WILFORD, on behalf of himself and his Lib-Lab. following, claims that “Codlin is the friend, not Short,” and he would have you believe that Mr. Massey has done and can do nothing for the workers that he and his party cannot do better. IT PAYS TO LOOK INTO FACTS, HOWEVER. Mr. Wilford raises the cry of “Back to Seddon,” ignoring the obvious that Mr. Massey has improved upon and bettered the Seddonian legislation out of sight. Do you want the proof? Then look at the facts. Here are a few to begin with. OLD AGE PENSIONS. Because Mr. Massey and certain members o' the Opposition in Seddon’s day suggested amendments in the .method.of establishing and administering the Old Age Pensions system, holding that thrift should not be penalised, they were accused of opposing and voting against its introduction. Until 1912 the Seddonian-Wardit? Liberals had all the say. See what happened up to that year, and what has happened since. UNDER LIB.-LAB. GOVERN- UNDER REFORM MENTS. — GM Age Pensions system liberalised Old Age Pensions, under. Act of IS9R under Act of 1111:1. Pensions made limited -to. £lB per annum (6/11 I payable to women at 60 Years of per week) increased in 190 S to age in place of 65 as formerly. In£26 per annum (10/- per week). come restrictions grently modified. Pension reducible hy £1 every Pensions raised in 1917 to £39 per complete £1 of income over £34 annum, and extra 5/- per week and £1 for every £lO of net ac- being given by way of bonus in cumulated -propertv. 1017 and since made permanent AVERAGE PENSION PAID AVERAGE PENSION PAID 1921-02. £37-xmi-ie. 8s MASSEY GOVERNMENT has in- ■ creased a WIDOW’S PENSION to T'TTT.Anrr,, 11 tor widow wjth one WIDOWS PENSIONS conferred l>y chil[k increased hy <l9 10» per Libera! Government in 1911 pro- anmlm f ,„. ~a <. h • adduionn , ( . hild viaed pension of £ll a year fnr under 14 yeara, without maximum, widow with one child under 14 so that a widow with *>ix ehildreh years increased by £6 for each mav rpppivi , c):Mj ppr annum . additional child up to a total of 4. and PXtr „ for papll additional child maximum payment being ■ limited under 14. to £3O-a year. AVERAGE WIDOWS’ PENSION 1921-12, £62. I MINERS' PENSIONS GRANTED AVERAGE WIDOWS' PENSION , uL M f A^ SE (^t G u™“ N w..ek 1 9 12 *3, X 1 • f or marr ied and 15/- per week for ! single men. increased .to 35/- and MINERS’ PENSIONS.— Under Lib- | 25/- in 1919. eral Administration— i PENSIONS FOR MAORI WAR VETERANS introduced under Military PenaionH Act, 1912, providing an annual pension of £36 Io Maori War Veterans, and subMAORI WAR PENSIONS.— Nothing sequently increased to £49 per done for the War Veterans. annum. Epidemic Pensions introduced in 1918 now involve average annual payments of £BO per annum to pensioners. , Police Pensions introduced in 1919 j on military pensions scale. Average payments 1921-22, £B9 per pensioner. EDUCATlON.— .Expenditure under UNDER MASSEY GOVERNMENT ■Liberal Government, 1911-12, 1921-22. £3.. r >73,000. And yet. the £1,294,000. I teachers say the system is being HOSPITALS & CHARITABLE AID "‘"'"’u.cewr rrwtrnwwwNT EXPENDITURE.-1911-12. £233,- ' 1921 ' a2 ’ qqq ’ * expended £4 26,000 on Hospitals, ■ etc. MINIMUM WAGE—The minimum • MASSEY GOVERNMENT RAISED wage payable under the Lib.-Lab. ! the minimum wage to £l4O in Administration in . 1911-12 was 19)2-13, ~ and it now stands at £l3O per annum. £209 15s. UNDER MASSEY AND REFORM TEACHERS’ SALARIES under Lib- the average salaries now paid to eral Government averaged £l6O teachers amount to £285 per anper annum. num. CTVTT QiTPVTrF FMPTOVFFS re- The avera « e payments to Civil SerCIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES vants in .salaries amounted to ceived average salaries oi £lBB 5n 1921-22. in 1911-12. THE - PAYMENTS TO MARRIED MARRIED MEN in the Railway men in the Railway Service were .■Service received a minimum wage increased from £l4O 17s as at of £l4O 17s per annum in 1911- the iBt of April, 1911, to £156 io» 12/which had been increased from ’ n thence by further ini’l3o per annum in 1908. creases in 1917, 1918 and 1920, and in 1922 with the two “cuts” in operation the minimum remains j at £2OB 138 4d. WAGES have increased from an average per worker of £99 Is 6d per annum (as shown by the factory returns) in 1910-11 to £lB5 12s Id in 1921-22. The average payments to male workers rose from £ll5 2s 9d in 1910-11 to £2lO 6s lOd in 1921-22, the payment to female workers rising from £5O 12s lOd in 1911-12 to £96 5s Id in 1920-21. As apprentices and improvers are included in the totals and averages it follows th® the payments to adult workers are really higher. REFORM GOVERNMENT, by raising interest rates on Post Office Savings Bank deposits from 3| to 3|, and then to 4 per cent., has increased the interest payments to depositors by over £200,000 per annum. COMPENSATION TO WORKERS.—The law has been amended bn three occasions since 1.911-12, and liberalised out of sight, the maximum payment to workers being increased from £5OO to £lOOO per annum; the weekly payments during incapacity being raised to 58 per cent, of the ordinary wage payments, and occupational diseases being made a matter for compensation. SUPERANNUATION.—The Lib-Labs, played with the idea of Superannuating Public Servants and State employees, contributing only' £191,500 to the funds established prior to 1911-12. Under Massey and Reform the payments have amounted to £1,301,000 in ten years. These are only a few of the many things accomplished during the ten years Mr. Massey has had control of the affairs of Stati. but they are enough to show that the workers have not suffered, but greatly benefited, under Reform. The Government policy is at onee broad, comprehensive, and enlightened. Electors Will Consult Their Best Interests by Voting for REFORM CANDIDATES on December 7th