WAGE INCREASES
CONCERN OF EMPLOYERS PUBLIC ADVERSELY AFFECTED (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Friday Concern at the substantial increases in wages made by the Arbitration Court in recent awards was expressed today by Mr W. J. Mountjoy, secretary of the Wellington Employers’ Association, in a statement to the press. “The difficulty the employers are confronted with today is that they have to face increased costs, taxation and overhead, costs over which they have no control, but the increased wages that will have to be paid as a result of these new awards must surely increase costs to the general public. “Recently a responsible Minister of the CroWn, when referring to extra taxation, suggested that everyone should make sacrifices, and added that to overcome extra expense imposed upon the workers the family allowance would be granted more liberally,” continued Mr Mountjoy. “If the workers are to receive consideration in this direction and then on top of that they receive additional wages, one wonders, if this state of affairs is to continue, what will be the future of people on fixed incomes, and of employers of labour in particular, whose income has been reduced as a result of war conditions.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21158, 6 July 1940, Page 9
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