MINERS' WAGES
| The Trades and Labour Council has endorsed the appeal of the Inangahua Miners' Union lor assistance in its fight for better wages. It is stated that there are 300 miners involved in tlio dispute, and that the men are seekins the. restoration of the wage cuts. Tlir company has offered to restore 'he cuts to wages men, of whom there are ; 47, provided the price of gold rsevfins HP and tiie exchange rste does not fall i bijow e certain level. The xp.w clsirc ; that since the cuts were imposed two [ years 520 the price of gold has risen , and the penefit from exchange has be<v [ practically doubled. They further cor tend that their work is of a precarior > nature, and that their rate of pa should be correspondingly high
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 9
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132MINERS' WAGES Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 9
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