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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 81
Labour and the Arbitration Act — Speech By Hon. Dr. Findlay. — Reply to Recent Criticism. — (Reprinted from the "New Zealand Times," 18th June, 1908.)
Contents
- [title page]
- Labour and the Arbitration Act — Speech By Hon. Dr. Findlay. — Reply to Recent Criticism. — (Reprinted from the "New Zealand Times," 18th June, 1908.)
- Suggested Amendment of Existing Laws
- The Speaker's Aim
- Get Down to Facts
- Arbitration Act Stopped Sweating p. 2
- Mr Reeves' Testimony
- Eighteen Strikes in Thirteen Years p. 3
- An Interesting Comparison
- Stort-Lived Tiffs
- The Cost of Living
- Wages and Prices
- Why Living Costs More
- Foreign Demand and Local Prices
- Land Valttes and Rewts
- The Cost of Building p. 5
- What Clothing Costs
- Conclusion from the Facts
- The Act Criticised p. 6
- A Levelling Down Tendency
- Conciliation Boards Have Failed
- Effective Fines Not Imprisonment
- Vexatious Victimisation
- Expeditious Hearings Essential p. 7
- Can Wages be Increased?
- Some Surprising Figures
- A Pernicious Fallacy p. 8
- The Employers' Side
- Memorandum for The Hon. Attorney-General. Wellington
- Very Few Making Money
- Not All Profit Anyhow
- Return of Public Companies p. 9
- Of All Private Companies
- Large Investments and Small Actual Profits
- Employers Not Parasites p. 10
- More Wealth Needed
- Sailing by a Distant Star
- Profit-Sharing Impracticable p. 11
- Wanted—A Wage Standard
- "A Needs Standard."
- "A Needed Wage" Differs with the Work p. 12
- The Danger of Levelling Down
- Why Not an "Exertion Wage?"
- Objections to the System
- Gain-Sharing an Alternative p. 13
- "No Cuts or Reductions."
- "Workers, Increase your Wages."
- Incentive to Workmen p. 14
- "Easily Worked if You Want to."
- Collective Progressive Wage
- Abuses Aimed At
- What Degrades Labour
- "Government Not Committed." p. 15
- Strike Punishment
- Contemporary Legislation
- Some Strikes Penal
- An Appeal to Moderation p. 16
- A Tribute to the Workers
- The Land Question
- Vote of Confidence — The Government Competent