A COWARDLY ASSERTION.
[The assertion is being industriously circulated throughout the Dominion [that the Government, prompted by a desire to create a swiplusago of labour and thereby bring down - wages, :s making wholesale dismissals of men from the public works. We liare no hesitation in describing such an assertion as cowardly and malicious, It is true that the number of hands has been reduced ion oertaJn railway work/i; bat this reduction has been
brought, alx.ut ia cf the financial strain ar.d the desire of tho Government to avoid extravagances ;:t a critical period. There i.i i<n abundance of work in t-'no country justnow for all v.'L'j want K. and the cry of the unemployed should not ho heard. We spo:'!; v/it-h a knowledge of the mind cf the Government when wo say that it has no more desire to create ;i glut, in the labour market than it has io -.reek the finance 1 ? of tho country.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10710, 2 November 1912, Page 4
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157A COWARDLY ASSERTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10710, 2 November 1912, Page 4
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