BASIC WAGE IN N.S.W.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 115, 17 May 1922, Page 7

BASIC WAGE IN N.S.W.

TO APPLY AT ONCE. THE FORTY-FOUR HOUR WEEK. fUprelvpil ii.i.:iii n.ir..i SYDNEY, this da.v. The "Daily Telegraph" asserts that Cabinet iiaa decided n> Gazette the new basic wage without delay. It also favours abolition of the forty-four hour week when the House of Assembly meets. | if Judge Beeby is not requested to review his forty-four hour judgment in the interim. The llovernn-.ent has decided to allot £100,000 sterling for relief works for t lir- unemployed.A committee appointed by the trades union* to consider the new basic wage hns drafted a report of 14 points repudiating , the verdict on the grounds thnt the Bonnl of Trade was not impartial and Die declaration was hasod on 1111----roliflble data. The committee also objects to the wage heinjr increased only once a year, mid now decreased twice in si\ months. It points to discrepancies between .ludpe Heydon and Judge Piddhiftton's estimates of the various items in the cost of living. Particularly rents are referred to as testimony to the unsatisfactory method of arriving a< a livinc wage. The former specified 14/0 and Judge TMddington 22/fi for a house with an extra room.— (A. and S.Z. Cable.)