NEW BASIC WAGE.
DISPUTE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. IBy Electric TeTegi aUu • —Copyright. (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received May 17, 1 p.m.) _ Sydney, May 17. The Committee appointed by the Trades' Unions to consider the new basic wage has drafted a report of 14 points, repudiating the verdict on tile grounds that the Board of Trade was not impartial and the declaration was based on unreliable data. The cominitte also objects to the wage being increased only one in a year and now being decreased twice in six months. The discrepancies between Judge Hoydon and Mr A. B. Piddington’s estimate of the various items in the cost of living, particularly rents, are referred to as testimony to the unsatisfactory method of arriving at the living wage. Judge Hovdon specified l4s Gd and Mr Piddington 22s Gd for a house with an extra room.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4591, 17 May 1922, Page 3
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