THE BASIC WAGE
LABOURERS’ AVERAGE EARNINGS. (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, March 4. The contention that labourers’ wages should be fixed at such a level that the average earnings should reach the basic wage, irrespective of time lost in wet weather, was argued before the Arbitration Court in an application for new awards covering quarry workers and builders’ general labourers.., Mr Robinson, for the Union,. argued that if the basic wage did not operate in this manner it could not. be termed basic. On the present rates labourers did not average anything like the basic wage. Mr Cookson, for the employers, argued that higher rates for labourers would place the skilled labour rates out of proportion to the unskilled.
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Southland Times, Issue 23140, 5 March 1937, Page 4
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118THE BASIC WAGE Southland Times, Issue 23140, 5 March 1937, Page 4
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