{"id":6320,"date":"2016-02-29T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/money-for-nothing-in-a-leap-year-archive-29-february-1932\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:46:13","slug":"money-for-nothing-in-a-leap-year-archive-29-february-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/money-for-nothing-in-a-leap-year-archive-29-february-1932\/","title":{"rendered":"Money for nothing in a leap year: archive, 29 February 1932"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n29 February 1932: In a leap year the wage-earners score at the expense of the salaried classes, for the man who is paid by the month does a day\u2019s work for nothingSince this is the morning when an enriched February puts forth its modest Leap Year bud in the shape of that extra day, presumably there will be another outcrop of venerable references to ladies who \u201cpop the question\u201d and to little boys and girls who are supposed to have only one birthday in four years. It might give a fresher turn to the subject to suggest that comrades and proletarians in general might do much worse than adopt the Twenty-ninth of February as \u201cLabour Day\u201d instead of May 1. It seems to be the one occasion in the calendar when the wage-earners score at the expense of the \u201crentier\u201d and salaried classes – for the man who is paid by the day or week gets his money for to-day\u2019s labours, while the man who is paid by the month or year does a day\u2019s work for nothing. The invested funds of the bloated capitalist also fail him; as compared with normal years he loses a whole day\u2019s interest on his ill-gotten gains. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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