ECONOMIC POSITION
A REMEDIAL CONFERENCE
LOWER WAGES DEMANDED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Numerous questions of the economics of Government control made a formidable agenda paper for a conference held last night by representative city and rural interests. The main points of agreement were that the Government service was overstaffed and the number of Civil servants and their privileges should bo curtailed, that many development works could be effected more economically by private enterprise, and that the Arbitration Act be overhauled to provide compulsory conciliation and optional arbitration. The view was expressed that a substantial reduction in the wages of city workers was due, and the Court should be given power to reduce wages under all awards simultaneously. A motion was passed protesting against the increased railway freights and fares instead of economies being effected by alterations to the regulations. ..
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 115, 12 November 1930, Page 10
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ECONOMIC POSITION
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 115, 12 November 1930, Page 10
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