GENERAL WAGE CLAIM
ATTITUDE OF TRAMWAY WORKERS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 22. The present policy of the New Zealand Tramway Employees’ Union was not to press independently for any immediate increases in wages, but to stand by the Federation of Labour in any claims it might make on behalf of workers generally, said Mr P. A. Hansen, national secretary of the union, in Conciliation Council to-day when the hearing was resumed of the union’s claims for a new national award.
‘We do not want to become involved in any arguments about wages,” Mr Hansen said. “We know there is talk of another general increase in wagesj but we do not want to partake in the racket of pushing wages up in competition with other unions.” Mr Hansen asked that the Conciliation Council should insert a clause m the proposed award providing that existing rates of pay should be subject to any order that the Arbitration Court might issue for an . increase during the term of the award.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25607, 23 September 1948, Page 4
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