RISE IN COST OF LIVING
No Decision On
Wage Move
(New Zealana Press Association) January 15. The president of the New Zealand Federation of Labour (Mr F. P. Walsh), discussing tonight the rise of .6 per cent, in the latest consumers’ price index, said that the industrial labour movement wAs not, as far as he knew, considering an application to the Court of Arbitration for a general wage rise. The executive members of the federation were on holiday, he said. He did not know when they would next meet. Last year Mr Walsh predicted, fairly accurately, what the rise in the consumers’ price index, as defined- in the official October figures, would be. If tpe price index rose to the predicted level the Federation of Labour, he implied, would put in train the necessary steps for a general wage increase application. . The new index figure Was duly published in October and commented on by Mr Walsh. There has been no application since, by any union, for a general wage increase. (Earlier report page 14)
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28795, 16 January 1959, Page 8
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