SETTLEMENT OF STRIKES

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24914, 29 June 1946, Page 8

SETTLEMENT OF STRIKES

WAGE INCREASES IN U.S.

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 28. “All recent strikes in the United States were settled by the granting of large increases in wages and, in many cases, by payment of several millions of dollars for retrospective increases.

Wages to-day in that country appear fantastically high, when converted to New Zealand currency,” said Briga-dier-General Sir Herbert Hart, of Masterton, on his return to New Zealand on the Monterey .after attending a business gathering of Rotary at • Swampscott, near Boston, and the Rotary International Convention at Atlantic City. “In the United States J. rices and wages are rising. Boys leavng high school and college start work at the equivalent of £l2 10s ’a . week and office and shop girls get paid £l3 to £l7 a week. Working men with any claim to reasonable sljjill receive the equivalent of £lOOO a year.” Accompanied to the United /States’ by Dr. Blair Tennent, of Palmerston North, representative of the 53rd District of Rotary International, Sir Herbert Hart represented the 52nd district The convention, he said, had been attended by 11,000 Rotarians from 52 countries. Japan, Germany, and Russia were not represented. Special attention had been given to international affairs and to the extent Rotary, through its world-wide organisation, could help the United Nations Orga- | nisation and United Nations economic, scientific, and cultural organisation.