WAGE FIXING

Grey River Argus, 19 December 1930, Page 5

WAGE FIXING

NOT BOARD’S FUNCTION. (Per Press Association.) AIASTERTON. December IS. Notwithstanding that iiiu ■ appeared in the press, or that Air. Polson has said o.i tl.' 1 public platform, the co'.d hard fact remains, said' Air. Burdekin, (Deputy Chairman <- e . the Unemployment Board), to-night that i was the policy of the Unemployment Board Got to interfere with . the existing scales of wages in New ' Zealand. The employers and employers were. left absolutely free to make their ow n bargains as to wages. The Act gave the Board no power to fix wages, ami the Board was not usurping’ a. function it did not possess. It was leaving the loea' bodies 1 » fix the rates' according to their own 10-l cal conditions, Jud Ihe individuals to do so by mutual agreement. Tin- Boa id , merely subsidised up to 7s per day | OUTSIDERS ATTRACTED. DUNEDIN, December 18. Consequent on a remark by a member of the Hospital Board meeting to-night that a> number of recently arrived Australians had .is ted the 1 relief depots in Dunedin, the Board unanimously passed the To-lowing resolution:—“That. tile Government lake immediate steps to prevent un-1 employed from Austral' a from enter-j ing New Zealand. If. was resolved that, a copy be sent 1<» the Acting Prime Minister.