UNIFORM PAY
SOLDIERS RELEASED FROM CAMP A declaration that soldiers released from camp for seasonal farm work would not be allowed to stipulate that their wages should be higher than the ruling rates, was -citlg by the Minister of Piimaij ■Production for War Purposes, the Hon. W. J. Poison, at a conference representative of South Island farmers. "We will have to have a uniform rate," he said, "and it may be that the rate will have to be higher than you are contemplating." Representatives complained that a camp agreement among soldiers who were to be released for wheat planting was that they should receive 10s for live days of a week of nine hours a day. "That is .not light,'' commented the Minister. "The men must accept the ©rdinary conditions. These men will, however, have to I):: paid as temporary workers. We can easily setile that by making it a condition of their release from the army." Farmers said producers had agreed to' pay higher Avages so as to get labour. The Minister said chaos ■ would reign if men from the army went on to farms and Avorked under dilferent conditions from those of -ordinary Avorkers.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 88, 7 August 1942, Page 5
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196UNIFORM PAY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 88, 7 August 1942, Page 5
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