PIECEWORK

Evening Star, Issue 19583, 15 June 1927, Page 8

PIECEWORK

AUSTRALIAN JUDGE’S VIEWS

FIRST-CLASS WAGE FOR FIRSTCLASS MAN.

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.

SYDNEY, June 15

(Received June 15, at 10.50 a m.)

In tho Commonwealth Arbitration Court the Chief Judge (Mr Justice Dethndge), referring to piecework, said that he was in favor of it. The conditions that obtained in industry today, compared with other countries, could only be preserved if payments by results were adopted.

The judge said that lie had very strong objections to degrading the firstclass man in industry. .He believed in, giving the first-class man first-clas wages.

The Australian Workers’ Union representative replied that workers in Australia would not oppose piecework so long as they were guaranteed that tho continual cutting of rates by the employers would bo stopped.