BASIC WAGE.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REJECTS FINDINGS. COUNTER PROPOSALS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. MELBOURNE, November 24The basic wage announcement felP with bombshell effect throughout the Commonwealth industries. , . , Mr Hughes at great length explained the Commission's findings in the House of Representatives. He said that the Government had rejected them.. The full wage should not bo paid to all workers, irrespective of their dependents. The Government would consider a, scheme with a basic wage of £4, with an endowment of 12s for each child. To obviate employers giving' preference to single men it "is proposed that employers shall pay a uniform rate of £4, with, a per capita amount for each employee, which will bo pooled for endowment purposes. , _, Mr Hughes added that the Commission's findings, if given effect to, would result in an economic revolution.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18571, 25 November 1920, Page 7
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138BASIC WAGE. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18571, 25 November 1920, Page 7
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