LABOURERS’ WAGES
COURT HEARS ARGUMENT By Telegraph—Press Aseoelatleo DUNEDIN, March 4. The contention that labourers’ wages should be fixed at such a level that average earnings should reach the basic wage, irrespective of time lost in wet weather, was a feature of the argument before the Arbitration Court, in the application for new awards covering quarry workers, butchers, and general labourers. Mr Robinson, for the union, argued that if the basic wage did not operate in this manner, it could not be termed basic. On the present rate, labourers did not average anything like the basic wage. Mr Cookson, for the employers, argued that higher rates for labourers would place skilled labour rates out of proportion to unskilled.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20668, 5 March 1937, Page 15
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118LABOURERS’ WAGES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20668, 5 March 1937, Page 15
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