ENGINEERS’ WAGE CUT.
MELBOURNE, Juno 5. The Federal Arbitration Court, in the plaint of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers ag: inst the Adelaide Steam ship Company ami others, Mr Justice Powers varied the award given by Mr Justice Higgins last year, by reducing 77/-. and apprentices’ wages by 2/<> weekly. The Judge declared that the j the engineers’ base- wage from 81 - io evidence submitted to the Court proved beyond doubt that if Australian Indus tries were to compete in the world s markets, the rates previously awarded could not be paid. If they •. ;re paid, ' the industries could not be carried on prtKitably or even carried on at all.
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Grey River Argus, 8 June 1922, Page 3
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