REDUCED BONUS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 13 June 1919, Page 5

REDUCED BONUS

SHIPPING FEDERATION'S PRO-

POSAL,

CONTROL OF FOOD

BY CABLE—PSESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT

(Received June 13, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 12

On the widely controverted ground of the lower cost of living, the Shipl building and Engineering Federation proposes a reduction of five shillings per week in the skilled and unskilled workers' war bonus. The dispute affects 2,000,000 men. The War Cabinet is considering the expediency of continuing food control through the winter months in order to prevent profiteering.