HOW TO LIVE PROBLEM.

West Coast Times, 17 February 1914, Page 3

HOW TO LIVE PROBLEM.

THE COURT’S DECISION. (PEE FBE6B ASSOCIATION. —COPTEIGHT.] SYDNEY. Feb. Hi. His Honour Mr. Justice Heydon delivered judgment in the inquiry respecting the cost if living and the living wage. j After a lengthy review of Hie evidence His Honour said the advance in rents and other factors led to the increased cost of living. He declared that the living wage must relate to the humblest class of worker. The standard must clearly he his, otherwise there will he as many living wages a> .•lasses, whereas a living wage is the lowest which any male adult worker, not licensed as a “slow worker” should receive; and is based, not on the value of his work, but on his requirements as a man in a civilised community, which has resolved that so far as the laws can do it. competition shall no longer he allowed to ciush him into a sweating condition. Judge Heydon fixes the living wages of the Sydney workers at 4S- weekly for an average dependent family of four, as against £2 (is fid suggested by the secretary of the Labour Council.