A BASIC WAGE.
ARBITRATION' COURT’S PROPOSAL, (Rer United Press Association.) DUNEDIN, April 1. During, the hearing of the flour mill employees’ dispute before the Arbitration Court to-day, in which the Union asked that the wages be fixed at Is 9d, Is Bd, and Is 2id hourly, and that the starting bo at 8 a.m. the year round, or else at 6 a.m., the President asked Mr Haymes, the Union’s representative, if fie would agree to the Court’s suggestion of yesterday of fixing a basic wage, and then giving a war bonus to compensate for the increased cost of living, subject to variations from time to time, every six months. Mr Haymes said they were quite agreeable to the Court fixing a basic wage and a war bonus. The President said that the basic wage would be always open to review. Whatever the Court did here in this dispute, it would, no doubt, be followed in other places, and would, in effect, be a Dominion award.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15782, 2 April 1919, Page 5
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165A BASIC WAGE. Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15782, 2 April 1919, Page 5
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