“A Mountain Has Laboured...."
(PA) WELLINGTON, February 6. “The decisions of the Railways industrial Tribunal have been received too recently to iattempt to analyse their effect fully, but it is clear that they do not do anything to overcome the railway tradesman's lion with his relative wage rate, eaid Mr. T. F. Gebbie, secretary of the Railway Tradesmen’s Association, this morning. ,”" e rejection .of the associations modest claim indicates that there is little likelihood of obtaining from the tribunal a proper assessment of the productive and economic value of the tradesmen's work.” ‘ The tribunal, he added, had failed to realise that the wages it fixed were maximum rates, whereas those fixed for the outside tradesman by the’Arbitration Court were minimum wages. .While some minor anomalies had been dealt with, the general impression would be that “a mountain had laboured to bring forth a mouse,” Mr. Gebbie added.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1947, Page 8
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