MARRIED BOYS.
SYDNEY CIVIC SERVICE. BASIC WAGE PROPOSED. At a meeting of the financial committee of the Sydney City Council'lately, Alderman Holdsworth, for the Labour aldermen, advocated the payment of the basic wage to 11 boys in the City Council service who had not attained the age of 21. He said he wanted this payment for one year only. Some of these boys, now over 20, had two children, and they could not keep a wife and two children on the wage they were getting. > Alderman Courtenay opposed the motion on the ground that it was an aldermanic interference with the discretion of the conciliation committee. He pointed out that en the figures of the town clerk there were only 14 employees of the City Council who would benefit by the Child Endowment Act, as these" were the only married employees getting leas than the basic wage. The Child Endowment Act would cost the City Council £62,000 a year, and only 14 employees could participate. He further contended that these 14 employees would under that Act be better off than if the council now granted them the basic wage. Eventually the matter .wad sent to ® sub-committee for inquiry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19728, 30 August 1927, Page 6
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