WELL PAID MEN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 4 April 1919, Page 11

WELL PAID MEN.

ASK FOR AVAR jBONpS# , , ■fl (Pec Press • • ' DUNJfIJJiiN; Apriil 3. ?BeforO tho Arbitr.aiteon Court to-day the eihilt»• engineers of the Dunedm yiixporat.om agpliod for. a war, bonus "P'iS per centi. It'was statsd thai/ their* wages rapged From £-j 12s 6d WW'y, foi; first shift engineers to £4 Wtoy fpr ; others. The union asked.' foa- a. war .bonus to enaWe them to' meet the increased cost of iiviHg. Mr' Lcivin, Town Clerk, for : the Corporation, asked was there, no limit en tihe weekly; ; wages, on which tba increased e<Jgt was to, be based ? ' Hitherto tho had been deaJang with the ordinal artisan. The request of these sejf.en men was not. serious in ita3li, but in . justice to the whole of > tho Corporation employers it would he difficult/for the, Oorjwrationi to laiow how t<>, deal, with tho Mother, 1 'men.=. If.. ifr wjjj.d be shown-.' that.. ai''jjhan receiving £s■ 12s 6d was ' enfcrfclcd' tian increase 0f],15 per cent; theyl' to stop there oir to contin/uis • on. • ■ , ■' ; - Th.3 Presidentsaid the Court never previously had "ufldsr; consideration -' the question of highly salaried men for thepiirnose of meeting .the "increased 7 . eosfe of,living. He was 1 glatf that it 'had been raised. 3fc?r Lewin said:: '"Worare looking for' a lead from you. in justice to other and lower pa ; d men.'* • ~'The Pi-esident'mid rhe'would consider me matter. . * .