WAGES IN BRITAIN.
LEGAL MINIMUM DESIRED. DRIFTING BACK TO 1834. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn, v LONDON, March 8. The House of Commons debated Dr. Salter’s private member’s motion, urging the Government to proceed without delay with the Bill introduced in 1919 constituting a commission to inquire into legal minimum rates of wages. He said, “We are getting back to the level of wages in 1834.” The principle of a minimum wage was in active operation in Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Major A. B. Boyd Carpenter, of the Ministry of Labour, in replying, said a national minimum wage had been tried and proved a failure. It had been turned down by the Trade Unions’ Congress: The Boards of Trade were already fulfilling the functions which the members opposite had asked for. Mr Ti Henderson said the Labour Party was not asking a flat rate or a national minimum wage, but for minimum time rates —a very different thing. The motion was negatived by 184 to 176. '
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15185, 10 March 1923, Page 5
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