CLERICAL WORKERS' CASE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 7

CLERICAL WORKERS' CASE

HIGHER PAY FOR YOUTHS CLAIMS BEFORE COURT (Per Press Associution.) WELLINGTON, this day. The workers' case for the clerical workers' award in the Northern, Wellington, 25-mile radius, Westland, Otago, and Southland was placed before the Arbitration Court to-day. . Regarding wages. Mr. Pharazyn, agent for the workers, said they asked for a slight increase in the first and second year of service of juniors who started under the age of 16, the object being to discourage the employment of young boys who should be at school. The workers had added twb more years to the scale, raising the minimum for a fullv qualified worker to £6 in his sixth to his eleventh year, according to the age when he started. They asked for special recognition for males doing highly skilled and responsible work, and were seeking 10s a week exera. They desired _to reduce the proportionate disparity between men's women's wages. Many female workers had married recently and there was little unemployment amongst men, he said. Soon however, the commercial colleges would have a supply of female workers available, and the fear was that they would be employed in place of men at lower rates.