A COMMUNITY MATTER
Received Tuesday, 10.50 p.m. ALKLBUURNK, Nov. 12. The attitude of the I'itll Arbitratiou Court in deciding tlie future of thc tiasic wage, was not to base it 011 how many children or how inany wives a nian had Imt 011 wliat the connnunity cotild alford to pay, said the acting Chief Judge of the Aribilration Court. Alr. Justice Drake Brockmau, aLthe re stimed hearing of tlie forty-hour week case. Tlie Judge stated that tlie claim for an incrcase of the basic wage madi by the Anstralian Council of Trades Unions, was too isolated and that the iipproach was inadequate. A decision 011 union lines cotild incrcase instead 01 .-cttling industrial trouble. Tlie Court would procced to consider thc questiomof hours and wagcs together. In argumeiit tlie Judge said "11" necessary, 1 ani prcpared to take strong action and to cut across employers, em ployees and everybody else, 111 tlie inter ests of Ihe connnunity. The Court inust lie thc controllcr of its own procedurc. " Thc Court will adjourn on Friday tui til Dcccnibcr 0 to cuablc the parties Ti piepurc cases and flle statemeuts on tlu basic wage question.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 November 1946, Page 5
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