ARBITRATION
PA INTERS- SEEK" RISE. WELLINGTON, July 12. The hearing of an application by New Zealand Painters and Decorators Federation for a general order under the Ratos of Wages Emergency Regulations, 1940, to fix the rates of wages in the industry owing to the increase in the cost of living, commenced at the Arbitration Court to-day, when Mr Robinson (Dunedin) presented a long written - statement on behalf of .-the workers.- lie submitted that the--tax-ation f provisions 'in the Budget made it imperative that the purchasing power giveti;'in the Court’s ,standard \rage> pronouncement of 1937, should bet-re-stored tp,the workers. , , . . ~ ,r / .••
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1940, Page 6
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99ARBITRATION Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1940, Page 6
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