THE COST OF LIVING
ARBITRATION COURT PROPOSAL. A SLIDING BONUS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN. Monday. After hearing an application of the Farriers’ Union for an increase in wages under the War Regulations today. the President of the Arbitration Court said that with regard te the application to meet the increased cost of Hying, the Court had in view the arranging of a basis of wages for the different classes of workers—skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled, and they give a bonus to meet the increased cost of living, and let that bonus vary up or down, as the cost of living rose or fell and date it for six months. The obiect was to introduce some sort of uniformity ,and they would get the Government Statistician to select two average periods of six months each. Hon. ‘J. T. Paul (representing several unions) said, personally, he would object to any system that would prevent an increase in the basis wage. The President said it would not do that. It would always he open to them to apply for an increase on the basis wage, but so long as there was an increase in the cost of living, the varying bonus would represent what they got in respect to that.
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Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14026, 1 April 1919, Page 5
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