TEN PER CENT. CUT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 230, 29 September 1931, Page 7

TEN PER CENT. CUT

COOKS AND STEWARDS. REQUEST FOR EXCLUSION [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Sept. 28. After the hearing of evidence the Arbitration Court reserved its decision in the case in which the Federated Cooks and Stewards’ Association of Workers made application to bo excluded from the general order of the court for the 10 per cent reduction in wages.

The special grounds upon which the application was based were: (1) That the wages as fixed by the Cooks and Stewards’ awards never came within the ambits of vho pronouncements of the Court relating to the fixed basic wages of such pionounceincnt. (2) That when tho Court of Arbitration was issuing general orders for payment of bonuses on cost of living, such bonuses were not granted to cooks and stewards. (3) That in fixing the wages of cooks and stewards consideration was given to the fact that in addition to cash wages they were also in receipt of food and lodging, and a fixed sum for same at £4 per month was taken into consideration. (4) That the whole of tho reduction now applied only to cash wages, and ignored the fact that consideration for a reduction should also be taken from the allowances men tinned in paragraph (3). (5) That the reduced wages ordered by tho general order would place cooks and stewards in an infinitely worse position, and far below the Court ’s standard.