INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15922, 7 May 1912, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE MINIMUM WAGE

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, May 5.

Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Swansea, proposed that instead of a minimum daily wage there should be a yearly salary, paid whether made by good or bad workers, and whether idle or not.

Sir Edward Grey, Mr Lloyd George, Mr Winston Churchill and Mr Sydney Buxton will constitute the committee to investigate tho prevailing unrest.