AUSTRALIAN BASIC WAGE
COURT REFUSES INCREASE RESENTMENT EXPRESSED BY TRADES UNIONS Received Feb. 8, 5.5 p.m. MELBOURNE, Feb. 8. Australian trade unions express resentment at the action of the Arbitration Court in refusing their applications for an immediate increase in the basic wage on the ground that the economic outlook is not as good as in the year preceding its last declaration in 1937. The Australian Council of Trades Unions therefore proposes the calling of an All-Australia Congress to consider the matter. The council claims that a vicious reduction in living standards has been made a sa result of increased direct and indirect taxation. The responsibility is now on the Government, it says, to assure the workers that it does not propose to allow the matter to rest where the Arbitration Court has left it.
Mr. E. F. Lyall, president of the Victoria Employers’ Federation, said employers appreciate the Court’s decision not to change the wage position in the present disturbed conditions.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 34, 10 February 1941, Page 6
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