WAGE DETERMINATION
MUTUAL AGREEMENT FAVOURED -X" COMPULSORY ARBITRATION CONDEMNED By Telegraph—Press Association —Oonyrlght (Rec. September 10, 5.5 p.m.) London, September 9. Mr. W. L. Hichens, president of the economic section of tho British Association, in a paper, discussed the principles of wage determination. He condemned compulsory drbityation, and expressed preference for a jnutual agreement between employers and employed. He/lid not believo in profit-sharing as the solution of the problem of fair distribution of the’ proceeds of tho industry, nor did he support tho scheme for fixing wages as for single men and making allowances for wives and children. That remedy was worse than tho disease. It would have to bo administered by tho State, and he could not imagine a more detestable form of State Socialism.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 299, 12 September 1921, Page 5
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128WAGE DETERMINATION Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 299, 12 September 1921, Page 5
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