WAGES AND LIVING COSTS.
BASIC WAGE AND BONUS.
COURTS ADOPTS PRINCIPLE.
I (BX TH.EoaAPn.~rnEBs ASSOCIATION.] DDNEDIN. Tuesday. Daring thu heaving of the flour mill employees' dispute before the Arbitration Court to-day, in which the union asked that wages be fixed at la 9d. Is Bd, and Is 2£d per hour for the various classes of labour, and that the starting time be 8 a.m. all the year round, or else that remuneration 08 given for starting at 6 a.m., the president asked Mr. Haymes, the union' 6 representative, if he would ! agree to thij Court's suggestion of yesterday, of fixing the basic wago and then giving a war bonus to compensate for the increased otat of living subject to variations from time to time every sis months, j Mr. Haymes said they were quito agree- ! able to tin Court fixing the bi'-sic wage ' and the war bonus. i The president said that the basic wage i would be always open to review. What- ; ever the Court did here in this dispute ' it would no doubt be followed in other places. It would in effect be a Dominion I award. (
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17125, 2 April 1919, Page 10
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