ENGLAND'S POOR
EFFECT OF INCREASED WAGES
(Received January 7, 8 a.m.) LONDON, January G
Mr Alfred Wallace, President of the Land Nationalisation Society, in an interview, said that continually increasing workers wages was the mos-t beneficial thing for any country.
"Great Britain," he said, "was the
I richest country in the world, yet the bones of starvation were clanking and rattling and we do nothing eyeent say with a shrug of shoulders,' 'Lot 'em starve.' " The accumulation of wealth was criminal. Tho problem would be solved if it was legislated that the unborn should not ha.ve right's; then the State would become the inheritor and could make ample provision for its heirs.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 8 January 1913, Page 5
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112ENGLAND'S POOR Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 8 January 1913, Page 5
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