RETROSPECTIVE WAGE ORDERS
FEDERATED FARMERS PROTEST Strong disapproval of the procedure of making wage increases retrospective was expressed by the ninth annual conference of the North Canterbury district of* Federated Farmers on Friday. . • Moving a remit to this effect from the provincial executive, the president, Mr D. W. Gray, said that he thought they were all concerned at what had happened in the past. About 12 months ago an act had been passed prohibiting this very thing, but the door had since been opened. i It was a most disagreable form of| arbitration, said Mr w. C. Miller. It particularly hurt industries like the carrying industry, which had done a job and been paid for it and could never recoup the extra cost involved. “It is a crippling burden On many of these types of industries, and the farmer,” said Mr Miller. .. . . . ..
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27369, 7 June 1954, Page 6
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