WAGES CUT RESTORATION
AUCKLAND COUNCIL DECISION LOCAL BODY LABOURERS’ AWARD ACTION BEFORE END OF THE YEAR. INVESTIGATION BY A COMMITTEE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Nov. 17. By eleven votes to nine the City Council passed a motion to restore the 10 per cent, cut in the wages of employees working under the local bodies labourers’ award. The council then decided, on the casting vote of the Mayor (Mr. G. W. Hutchison) that the finance committee should investigate the financial position and report upon the possibility of taking action during the remainder of the financial year. The Mayor had appealed to the mover of the first motion to withdraw it because the council had already budgeted for the year and had decided that it was preferable to pay smaller wages to more men than to dismiss them and pay full wages to the remainder. The mover of the motion, while recognising that the Mayor was sympathetic to wage-raising,, declined to withdraw the motion.
On the second division an independent Labour member, Mr. T. Bloodworth, voted against the official Labour section on the ground that the decision would affect other employees besides men under the award.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1933, Page 9
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