LABOUR LEGISLATION.
Ed. W.A.]
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Lately you have on a number of expressed the opinion tiiat our labour legislation was too advanced, and that labou era were getting too much of the good things of this world. In my opinion they have not yet gor, half what taey ought to g«t and what they will get if Mr Scddon—long life to him—remains in power a few years longer. You seem to think that farmers should continue to pay the starvat.on wages they have b en doling out to their hands for the past number of years. What bu-iness man can show the prosperity of a farmer? And yet all men are now paying fair wage--. The farmers are the m >st wealthy class in the country, and they have to put up with no competition. They have merely to sit do.vn and wait on the fruits of the earth appearing and making them rich. It do?sn't m ike any difference to me, but I get tired hearing people say the farmer cannoi afford to pay more than the pittance he now gives his employees f»r their week's work, which is ratliei- more than forty-eight hours.—ram, etc., Wbaet Willie.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 192, 22 August 1901, Page 3
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200LABOUR LEGISLATION. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 192, 22 August 1901, Page 3
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