WAGE INCREASE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4534, 9 February 1942, Page 4

WAGE INCREASE

GENERAL ORDER WANTED APPLICATION TO COURT A further application for a general order increasing wages has been filed with th<? Clerk of Awards, Wellington, by the New Zealand Enginedrivers’ and Firemen’s Industrial Union of Workers. No information is available about the fixing of a date for a hearing by the Arbitration Court. . The application is made under the Rates of Wages Emergency Regulations, 1940, and an order if granted would affect all awards, industrial agreements, and apprenticeship orders. This application is the third of its sort, asking for an increased wage to meet the increased cost of living. The first application was made in May, 1940, an order granting an increase of 5 per cent being made in August that year. The second application was that made by the Enginedrivers’ Union in October last year, the Arbitration Court’s judgment in December being that a general order increasing wages was not justified by the economic and financial conditions affecting trade and industry, and by the immediate outlook for trade and industry in this country.