MINIMUM WAGE.
LABOUR. MOTION REJECTED. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received March 9, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, March 8. The House of Commons debated Dr. Salter's private member's motion, urging the Government to proceed without delay with the Bill introduced in 1919 constituting a commission to inquire into the legal minimum rates of wages. He said: "We ate getting back to the level of wages in 1834." He added thai the principle of the minimum wage wag in active operation in Australia, New Zealand, arid "elsewhere. ~ Major Boyd-Carpenter, replying, said that a national minimum wage had been tried, proved a failure, .■ and had been turned down by the Trade Unions Congress. The Board of Trade:was already fulfilling the functions which the members opposite had asked for. Mr: Henderson said the Labour Parts was not asking for a flat rate, but foi a national minimum wage for minimum time rates, which was a very differeni thing. The motion was negatived by 189 tc 176.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 March 1923, Page 8
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162MINIMUM WAGE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 March 1923, Page 8
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