RENT FIGURES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1924, Page 7

RENT FIGURES

ATTrrODE OP TRADES COUNCIL.

The letters recently addressed to the Snbtration Court by Mr. W. Bromley secretary of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, on,the subject of rent figures, were approved and endorsed;at a meeting of the council last evening. The opinion was expressed that figures affecting practically all workers in the Dcmimon should not be retained by the Court. ' J

-Speaking on the subject of wages generally this morning, Mr. J. Read, president of the Trades and Labour Council'; said that some years ago it was unusual for an employer to pay above the award rate of wages, the minimum rate as a general rule resolving itself into the maximum rate. , To-day the position was altered, and he considered that the fact that employers were not keeping strictly to the award was an indication that the Court was scarcely doing justice to the workers. He had discussed the matter employers, and they had confessed that they did not understand how workers with a family could exist on £3 16s Id, which the Court had adjudicated as th« workers' weekly wage. "It is an. indication,' said Mr. Read, "that the Court is not looking on the matter so generously a s the bulk of the. employers are doing to-day." . .