AUSTRALIAN WAGES

Evening Star, Issue 19614, 21 July 1927, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN WAGES

THE BASIC DECLARATION COMMISSIONER'S ANNOUNCE- ' MENT. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, July 20. Tho Industrial Commissioner (Air A. B. Piddington) unexpectedly countered tho submission that the living \va"e declaration was invalid by redeclaring the declaration of Juno 27 and fixing the basic wage at £4 5s per week. It is-anticipated that the employers will now move in the full Court for an injunction restraining tho-Commis-sion from proceeding further with the declaration, and that Parliament may have to be called together to pass amending legislation. s RURAL INDUSTRIES. TEMPORARY WAGE FIXED. SYDNEY, July 20. The Industrial Commission has declared the temporary living wage to be £4 4s weekly for adult male employees in rural industries, on the bams of a man and wife. [ln delivering tho basic wage ruling on June 27 Air Piddington also announced that the rale for women would ho increased by 3s 6d to £2 Cs weekly. The employees' representative of the Basic Wage Commission, in dissenting from the judgment, proposed a basic wage of £4 17s, and the ompioyeis' representative, wiio also dissented from Mr Piddington’s judgment, said that with the reduction of tho family unit, which was previously taken into consideration in granting the basic wage for man, wife, and turn children, there should be' a i eduction also in tho basic wage. Mr Lang's child endowment scheme of os weekly automatically came into operation.j