STATE WORK AND PAY.
■ .. « CONTRACTOR'S WAGES. Inr TELKOiurii—riiEss asshciation—rnr-Tniairr I London, March 11. In the House of Commons, during a discussion on the Postal Estimates, Mr. Hodges (Labour) moved tho insertion of a stricter fair wages clause in Government contracts. This led to the Right Hon. Sydney Buston, Postmaster-General, making the desired amendment, which tho House agreed to, the Labourites accepting it as satisfactory. During tho debate, the Unionists and some Radical Freetraders objected to the endeavour made to compel official recognition of local trade union rafcs instead of the present fair wages clause, because- it was opposed to the principle of Freetrado and the Government's system of placing contracts abroad, where lower wages were under no disability.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 455, 13 March 1909, Page 5
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118STATE WORK AND PAY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 455, 13 March 1909, Page 5
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