Manufacturers Averse To Bonuses As Labour Inducements
DUNEDIN, Last Night (PA).—The New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation does not subscribe to the present tendency on the part of certain manufacturers and other employers to bid indiscriminately for labour by offering high wages, bonuses or promises without in any way connecting these inducements with the corresponding demand for increased production. A motion on these lines proposed by the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association was carried. Mr F. G. Calvert said that manufacturers did not object to reasonable wages for a reasonable output. Some members of the federation, however, offered fantastic bonuses to keep their factories full of operatives. Bonuses did not. increase the amount of labour available or lead to increased production, but only to higher prices to the public. The bidding of employers for labour was having a demoralising effect on the workers of New Zealand The opinion that, the motion was hopelessly unrealistic because the federation had no way of enforcing it. was expressed by Mr D. I. Robinson (Auckland). “Stabilisation has broken down,” he added.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 3 November 1949, Page 6
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