Dominion Wages Far Higher

NZ Truth, Issue 1080, 12 August 1926, Page 1

Dominion Wages Far Higher

■ THE skilled wage rate m the New -Zealand engineering 1 trade is far higher than that operating m Great^Britoin; .Sweden;-' \\i France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark* orfother^pyerseas; coim- . 1 tries from whence our machinery is to-day^being imported! The present New Zealand rate is 79;3 per cent, higher than Great Britain^ rate, and when the new fates forecasted for .October by the Arbitration Court dome into operation the disparity will be increased to 86.2. ; ' . The difference between our rate and the overseas countries is shown herewith,' the figures m brackets showing .the -disparity with the new Dominion rate of October next: Sweden, 93.8 (100.7) ; France, 113.8 (120.7) ; Germany, 117.9 (i 24.8); and Belgium, 126.9 (133.8), , And this does not take into account the longer working hours of these countries! ' (imMimiMiMimmmwMiiiiiiimiimiMiMiiiiimimimimmmiimiiiiiiiimimiiiimmuiimimiiiMiiiiiiiiimiMmu^ •uuiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiniiiiiiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiniiumumHiiiiiuuintuHiniioiiiiiiiiiuinuiiiiiiniimniiiuutiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimiantmmmnraiimiim