MORAL "OF "HIGHER “WAGES.
FALLACIES OF PREMIER EXPOSED.
Sir Leo Chiczna Munay, writes in the Daily News of February 14 as follows:
On Tuesday Mr. Lloyd Üsorge, after what appears to have been a hasty glance at briefs prepared anil railway by coaloneES managers, tossed to insurgent Labour some propositions which are an discreditable to the Gor- erament as they are insulting to the intelligence of the people. His
high statement that magas aul shorter hours, of labour
necessarily bigh
Cust
mean
of production, and therefore hes of competitive power, is rapudiated not only by Labour, Bit by enlightened capitalists. It only neoils auswer- ing here because it is serionsiv atlared byamat possessing power ior good or evil-power for life or death. The Prime Minister told Parliament that before the war. "I believe we exported some- thing like $1,000,000,000 of goods." The figure is amazingly inaccurate, being £365,000,000, too much even if we ad in otr exports of foreign stuff. But the point is that he picture these. alleged exports as in danger through what he conceived to be the extravagant demanda labour.
Danger from whom? There are only two nations seriously to be reckoned with in the export trade. The first is Germany; the
These tw secondnerica.
with ourselves, form the industrial triumvirate of the world, because they are the three great eval
nations.
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As to the first, Germany is cuaseripting wealth an establish ing & Socialist State. The mines will be nationalised bad the workers given the whole produce of their labour. This, according to the Prime Minister's Own octrines, will! ruin Germany. Good; that settles that!
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But apart of nationalising coal. ́from that point, consider Ameri- ran wages. The facts are met distressing for America, if Mr. -Llard George knows what he is talking about. Let me give the facts, as illustrated by the wages af New York State actual earu- ings, not rates of wages, and head them:
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As to railways, the Prine- in 70 years, and prices had fallen very much in the interim. At Minister defended the sharehold- This is an average, covering the present moment, although ers as getting only 4 per cent," all the workers in bricks, cement, | wages are unch higher in as though he did not know, that glass, rastal, machinery, furniture, America than. here our the railway capitals are largely leather, rubber, chemicals, oils, manufacturers have clamoured water (e.g., hundreds of millions the Dauufactured by paper, printing, textiles. clothing, for and obtained rigid protection were failliuery, laundry-work, fool, against American competition, Bolshevist process of writing out water, light, power, etc. That is, which is causing American new certificates which changed
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