THE BASIC WAGE
WOMEN IGNORED TAILORESSES’ SECRETARY SURPRISED. [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND. October 8. Miss A. Cossey (secretary of the Tailoresses’ Union"), making a plea for higher images in the Arbitration Court, expressed surprise that _ women were ignored in the basic wage increase. She said: “It is dreadful. I don’t know whether the women of New Zealand will stand it.” Mr Justice Frazer said the court did not mention women because there was such a number of awards with varying scales of wages and this variation made it very difficult to lay down a definite wage for women. Under the old award a woman got just half the increase granted to the men, because they had not to support families. Miss Cossey said His Honor would bo surprised at the number of women who kept homos going. His Honor said the court could not take that as a general rule and treat woman as the head of the family. There were widows supporting children, or women whose husbands contributed nothing to the support of the home, but there were other legal mean® for rectifying this. Finally His Honor assured Miss Cossey that women had not ; been forgotten, j
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Evening Star, Issue 19064, 6 October 1925, Page 6
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199THE BASIC WAGE Evening Star, Issue 19064, 6 October 1925, Page 6
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