NEW BASIC WAGE.
TRADES UNIONISTS OBJECT. Received May 17, 11.20 a.m. " SYDNEY, May 17. The committee appointed by the trades unions t;o consider the now basic wage lias drafted a report of 14 points, repudiating the verdict on the grounds that the Board of Trade was not impartial and its declaration is based on unreliable data. The committee also objects that the wage was increased only once in a year and has now been decreased twice in six months. The discrepancies between Mr lleydou’s and Mr Piddington’s estimate of the various items in the cost of living, particularly in rents, are referred to as testimony to the unsatisfactory method of arriving at a living wage. The former specified 14s 6d and Mr Pickling ton 22s 6d for a house with an extra room.—Press Association, TO BE GAZETTED AT ONCE. Received Mav 17, 11,5 a.m. ‘ SYDNEY, May 17. The Telegraph assorts that Cabinet has decided to gazette the new basic wage without delay. It will also favour the abolition of the 44-hour week when the Assembly moots, if Judge Beeby lias not boon requested to review his 44-hour judg ment in the interim,—Press Association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 399, 17 May 1922, Page 5
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193NEW BASIC WAGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 399, 17 May 1922, Page 5
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