WORKERS’ WAGES
Reductions Opposed
LABOUR MOTIONS
Labour opposition to any suggested reduction in wage rates is expressed in resolutions passed at recent meetings. The Wellington Labour Representation Committee has placed its attitude on record in the following resolution : — That the Wellington Labour Representation Committee, representing over 7000 affiliated members, expresses its determination to resist anv movement to abolish the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. or any other attempt to reduce the workers’ standard of life, and pledges its support to the Parliamentary Labour Partv and the trades unions in every step taken by them to defeat attacks on the workers’ wages. The General Labourers’. Union, at a meeting on Monday night, carried the following motion: — That, in view of the unjust attacks now being made on the wages of the workers, the tifne has arrived when a record be drawn up of those taking a prominent part in this attack with the object of organising a boycott on them and their products.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 10
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162WORKERS’ WAGES Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 10
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