THE BASIC WAGE.
HIGHER SCALE URGED. APPLICATION BY ALLIANCE OP LABOUR. CPeb Unit'd Press Association.) WELLINGTON, December 6. The contention that wages are too low iri view of the existing nigh rents was raised at the Arbitration Court 1 before his Honor Mr, Justice Frazer (president) and Messrs W. Scott (employers’ representative) and H. Hiram Hunter ((workers’ representative). An application was made bv Mr A. Parlane (secretary to the Drivers’ Union and a member of the executive' of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour) on behalf of the Alliance of Labour that the court-should fix a day to hear argument in .favour of a substantial increase in the basic rates of wages before the expiration of the 1921-22 legislation, which provided for periodical general adjustments of wages. The reason for the application, said Mr Parlane, was (hat the present basic rate was not sufficient to provide for the bare necessities of physical existence. After a lengthy speech by Mr Parlane, the court said that the points raised would be carefully considered.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19038, 7 December 1923, Page 4
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171THE BASIC WAGE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19038, 7 December 1923, Page 4
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