WAGES IN WAR TIME, [To rim EDIT. or rise e•
tirecesesel Snt,—Is there not a very great danger that by raising wages in war time and giving war bonuses our workers will want the wax to last as long as passible? A mansion in wages of ten per cent. from pre-wax-time wages midi the wee is over would stimulate production, whereas an tamale of wages ueduceir it. The more wages you give the lees time a man will work. Reduce wage. and close all public-benses in places where Government contracts are being carried oat and mining districts at 8 p.m., and you would. soon stimulate a with for the war to end instead of creating a wish for ib to continue. Colliers are working only four days a week. If they did not get so much money, they would work five and a half, and the cost of coal to the poor would be reduced very quickly. Dock labourers arid coal-heavers will not unload vessels or pot coal on board and the food supplies in the ships cannot Ito got out and the coat of living goes up, and as it goes up more wages are asked and less work than ever is done, If we go on paying content increases of wages there is a grave danger that our working classes will get quite fond of war.—
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