RATES OF PAY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1929, Page 13

RATES OF PAY

A' LABOUR PROTEST

The 'following motion was carried at a meeting of the Wellington Bulkier. 1? and General Labourers' Union last evening: „ /. "That this, meeting of .the- Wolling- ■ ton Builders and General Labourers' j Industrial Union of Workers enter their emphatic, protest against the action, of the. Wellington City Council in the decision "to- pay- relief workers at the rate of 14s per day, in view of the declaration made by Sir Joseph Ward that the relief workers would be paid the standard trade .union rate of pay. We claim that the only standard rate to be recognised is the rate fixed by the Court, of .Arbitration. We submit that the action of the City Council is a deliberate effort to undermine the standard rate of. wages fixed by the Court of Arbitration, and that the council has no:legal power so to do. The action, therefore, concerns every trade unionist, not only, in Wellington, but tliroughout the Dominion. We call upon organised Labour in this city to -join with us in a demand that the City Council pay the standard trade union rate of wages fixed by the Arbitration Court, coveringl the class of employment that the relief workers are called upon to perform/