BELOW AWARD RATES
RELIEF WAGES ON GENERAL WORK LABOUR OFFICIALS PROTEST From Our Resident Reporter WELLINGTON, Sunday. Holding 1 that the payment of relief rate for general work is debasing the wages fixed by the Arbitration Court for the lowest paid workers, Labour officials protest against the action of the Government and the ‘Wellington City Council. At a meeting of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council and the New Zealand Alliance of Labour strong exception was taken to the attitude of the Wellington City Council in dealing with its loan money in this way. It was stated that so-called relief work, other than in two or three cases, was work which would in the ordinary course of events either be let by contract or be done by the council’s employees, in which case the court’s award would operate. The Government, it was stated, also had put on relief rates of pay for work whicii should have been treated as ordinary work.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 8
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161BELOW AWARD RATES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 8
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