RETORT-HOUSE EMPLOYEES.
FURTHER BONUS REFUSED
The application of the Auckland Gas Employees' Industrial Union of Workers for a bonus of Is per shift to retort-house workers, in addition to the war bonus already granted, has been refused by the Arbitration Court. The ground of the application was the increase in the cost of living since the making of the award in August last. Mr. Justice Stringer, in giving judgment, reaffirmed the principle that the increased cost of living, so far as it is caused by the war. is a burden which has to be borne by the whole community, and to relieve one class of its proportion of the burden will have the effect of increasing the proportion already being borne by other classes. The reasons which guided the Court in affording relief to the lowest-paid worker?' have no application to the case of workers who, like the retort-house men, earn £4 a week.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16849, 14 May 1918, Page 6
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