WAGE CUTS AND HIGHER EXCHANGE
WORKERS’ DEPUTATION TO MINISTERS
(By Telegraph-Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. The restoration of the original functions of the Arbitration Court-, and the issue of a general order restoring (o workers the reduction they had suffered in wages since 1929, were advocated bv a deputation from the Alliance of Labour and the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, which waited upon the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Labour, the Hon. A. Hamilton, last evening. The burden placed on town communities as a result of the high exchange was also referred to bv the deputation. In reply, MV Forbes said that the Government did not legislate in regard to wages. So far as the increasing of the exchange was concerned, be firmly believed that it would be for the good of the Dominion as a whole.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 11 February 1933, Page 6
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