JUDGE HEYDON'S DECISION.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) SYDNEY, February 16.
' Mr Justice Heydon has delivered his judgment m the inquiry respecting the cost of living and the living wage.
j After a lengthy review of the adi vances m rents and other factors which have led to the increased cost of living, he declares that a "living wage" must relate to the humblest class of worker jand the standard must be clearly his. Otherwise there would be as many "living wages" as classes, whereas the actual living wage is the lowest which any male adult worker not likened as a slow worker should receive, and is based not on the value of his work, but on his requirements as a man m a civilised community, which has resolved tliat, so far as the laws can do it, competition shall no longer be allowed to crush him into
sweating conditions, lie finds that the living wages for Sydney workers are 48s weekly for an average dependent family of four, as against the £2 6s 6d suggested by the secretary of the Labor Council.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13307, 17 February 1914, Page 3
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183JUDGE HEYDON'S DECISION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13307, 17 February 1914, Page 3
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