WAGES INCREASES

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1922, Page 6

WAGES INCREASES

UPWARD/MOVEMENT OF BASIC RATES

During the discussion in the House of Representatives of thel Indu3trial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment, mention has been made of the wages increases granted since 1914, and there has, been an implication that such increases have been confined to bonuses. According to information supplied vtp The Post by a correspondent who vouches for the accuracy of his research, there have be'en substantial increases in the actual basic rate in many trades. The par-, ticulars follow, and they are of special interest:— | Engine-drivers.—l9l3-141 rate, Is 3|d per hour, or 10s €d per day; present ■ basic rate, 17s per day.; bonus, 6d psr day; total wage, 17s 6d. Drivers (one horse). —1913-14 rate, £2 8s per week; present basic rate, £3 15s; bonus, 10s; total, £4 ss. .. . . Engineers.—l9l3-14 rate, Is 4Ad; present basic rate, 2s; bonus, 3|d; total, 2s 3Jd. Plumbers.—l9l3-14 rate, Is Sd; present basic rate, 2s 3d; bonus, id; total, 2s. Sid-Labourers.—l9l3-14 rate, Is 2d; present basic rate., Is 7d; bonus, 3*d; total, Is 10? d. Carpenters and Joiners.—l9l3-14 rate, Is 6d; present basic rate, 2s; boiius, 3|d; total, 2s 3|d. ■ . ■:■ Cooks and Stewards (chief cook, . Union 'Steam- Ship' Co., Ltd.)—l9l3-14 rate. £14 per month; present basic rate, 522 10s; bonus, nil; total, £22 10s. „ Furniture Trade.—l9l3-14 rate, Is 4^d; present basic.rate. 2s; bonus, 3|d;~totaJ,' 2s3»d. Grocersi—l9l3-14 rate, £2 10s; present basic rate, £4 2s 6d ;■ bonus, 8s; total, £4 10s 6d. Restaurant Workers (males).—l9ls rate, £4 10s; present basic rate, £4 15s; bonus, 14s; total,. £5 9s. " Restaurant Workers" (waitresses).— 1916 rate, £1 2s 64; present basic rate, £1 !ss; bonus, 9s 6d; total, £1 14s 6d. Storemen and Packers.—l9l4-15 rjte, £2 10s; present, basic rate, £4 ss;. bonus 10s; total wages, £4 15s. Waterside Workers (stevedores).—l9l4----15 rate, Is sd; present basic rate, 2s 3d; bonus, Id; total, 2s 4d.