TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 16

TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL.

THE UNEMPLOYED. INDUSTRIAL UNITY. The monthly meeting of the Auckland j Trades and Labour Council was held at I tin Trades Hall on Thursday evening. | There was a good attendance of dele- I gates, and the president (Mr. W. E. | Sill) occupied the chair. \i In considering a communication from [ I Wellington intimating that unem- 1 1 ployed who are to be engaged on public I < works are to be paid 14/ per day for j 1 married men, and 10/ per day for single \i men, it was resolved: "This council Jentevs its most emphatic protest against ; 1 any differentiation in pay as between |t married and single men, as a violation ; I of the principle 'equal pay for equal j ] work.' All work to be done by the un- I l employed is necessary work, and is U worth a standard rate of pay: to agree j j to the discrimination proposals of the 1 1 Government is dangerous, and would |.* ultimately lead to a severe handicap ' i of the married worker, by takine ad- \ vantage of his marital responsibilities. It is also a gross infringement of the i basic wage declared by the Arbitration i Court as the minimum on which our 1 standard of living can be maintained." 1 The matter of industrial unity also f received attention, and the council de- i oided to issue a recommendation to all i t Auckland unions to attend a Dominion 11 conference, called by the United Mine ' i Worker* of New Zealand, to lie held at t Wellington on August 2. for the purpose 1 of formulating a basis of unity for one < national industrial organisation for the ] Dominion. ]