MINIMUM WAGE
BRITAIN REJECTS PROPOSAL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, March 8. The House of Commons debated the private member’s motion, introduced by Dr. Salter, urging the Government to proceed without delay with the Bill, introduced in 1919, constituting a commission to inquire into the legal minimum rates of wages. He said: “We arc getting back to the level of wages in 1834.” The principle of the minimum wage was in active operation in Australia. New Zealand and elsewhere. Mr. Boyd Carpenter, replying, said the national minimum wage had been tried and had proved a failure. It had been turned down by the Trade Union s Congress. The boards of trade were already fulfilling the functions which members opposite had asked for. Mr. Henderson said the Labour Party was not asking for a flat rate national minimum wage, but for minimum time rates, a very different thing. The motion was negatived by 189 votes to 170.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1923, Page 5
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