BASIC WAGES.
AN IRONMASTER'S IUL\IARI\S. (Per Press Association). , • DpNEDIN, . April 3, Engineers and tinsmiths applied to the Arbitration . Court for an increase in wages: They asked what had been done in Christciiurch.' , ' The president said that wliat had been done up to the present was to fix a wage rangiDg from ls, 3Jd up to .Is 7id, and all cases hud been given a bonus of : '-. The unions' representative said he would rely on the- Court's decision in Christclrurch. ' Mr'.-Brown,' for the ironmasters, objected, and - said the ease should- be ' heard here. Referring to the president's [ remarks on Monday regarding a basic wage, tir Brown said it was impossible' for the Court to decide, from the Govl emment Statistician's . point of - view, the extra money featured for a home The Court 'would allow _ a primary _in dustry to dominate the whole ; position They tlirew the whole responsibility 01V the manufacturer "to provide for any extra cost of 'Jiving thrt the other partv liked ,to impose. That principle could not prevail. How could they srivp. £5 weekly to one mail without takinp it out of'the pocket of another man of the same group ? The powers of the Court were pot wide enough to cover the industrial declme of the counti-v-New Zealand could not pay a hasic wags of £3 weekly.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 4 April 1919, Page 4
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219BASIC WAGES. Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 4 April 1919, Page 4
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