The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 81

The Act Criticised

The Act Criticised.

I have now dealt with the main lines of criticism of my Wanganui speech, and I proceed to offer a few words of criticism of the Act, with a view to suggesting and justifying certain proposed amendments. First, I tried to show, in my former address, that the Act originally aimed at two purposes:
(1) The fixing of a minimum living wage.—an anti-sweating wage.
(2) Strike prevention.