THE BASIC WAGE
A JUDGE’S COMMENT SINGLE AND MARRIED WORKERS
(A. & N.Z.) SYDNEY, March 22. I During the hearing of the claim by |the Merchant Service Guild in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, Judge Detheridge, commenting on the principle of the basic wage, said that it was recognised that the basic wage gave a bare living to a married man with three children. Single men lived well at the married man’s expense but an uproar would arise if unmarried men were deprived, of part of their pay to meet the position. Thus an inulustrial and legal cul-de-sac had been created.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20103, 23 March 1928, Page 7
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99THE BASIC WAGE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20103, 23 March 1928, Page 7
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