METAL-WORKERS' WAGES.
AN IRONMASTER ON REGENT RISE.
A well-known Wellington ironmaster expressed himself strongly to a DoTuinion reporter, yesterday, on tho subject of the recent award given to the Metal Workers'-Union by tho Arbitration Court. "Metal workers," ho said, ! "was a name that had. been created probabjy by the union secretary, -ine men affected,' who are now to get 9s. 4d. a day of eight liours, are labourers makes othei.-s'above them discontentother work about the yard. These men, who number about 40 air told in Wellington, now got more than building .traSe labourers, who have to take risks with ."tho-weather. The result of these pin-prick rises at a time when work is" scarce", and the iron trade is by no means bright tends to drive work out of the , Dominion altogether. Now that there are. cheap cablegrams people wanting certain classes of work can cable Home and get it out in about eight weeks, and for less than "we. can possibly do it here owing to the lower scale of wages obtaining in the Old Country. Apart from that aspect of tho ease, the rise given to these labourers make others above' them discontented, and they will move for a further rise. And so it goes on—a very good way indeed to cripple struggling industries in this country." '
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2113, 2 April 1914, Page 6
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