Farm Workers
Sir,—The Government’s attitude to increased wages,to agricultural and dairy workers presents a somewhat com.nlex situation. From a dairyman’s point of view, no-one is adverse to increased remuneration to their employees. The Government sets the price a gallon for milk but has remained aloof from wage' adjustments. In August, 1957. 3s 2}d .a gallon was paid to producers, which was 2)d more than the price paid today. . Presumably this adjustment is made by Order-iri-Council based upon overseas prices of butter, without any consideration for the cost structure here. Why a different • technique applies -to the ' meat trade and others is incomprehensible until you realise their wage adjustment comes under the .aegis of the Arbitration Court, .and practically no embargo is placed on increased prices, allowing them to “pass the buck” without referring to any tribunals or boards.—Yours, etc, DISPARITY. June 17, 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30469, 17 June 1964, Page 16
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