LIVING WAGE INQUIRY.
STANDARD FOR SYDNEY.
JUDGMENT OF MR. JUSTICE
HEYDON.
By Telegraph—Press Association-Oosyriglit (Rec. February 16, 8.50 p.m.) Sydney February 16. Mr. Justice Heydon has delivered his judgment in tho inquiry respecting "the cost of living and the living wage." After a lengthy review of tho advance in rents, and other factors'; which havo led to the increased cost of living ho says: "Tho living wage must relate to the humblest class of worker. The standard must clearly be his, otherwiso there would bo as many living wages as classes, whereas the living wage is tho lowest which any male adult worker— not licensed as a slow worke'r—should receive, and is based not on the value of his work, but on his requirements .as a man in a civilised community, which has resolved that, eo far as laws can do it, competition shall no longer be allowed to crash him into sweating conditions." Mr. Justice Heydon fixes tho living wages of Sydney workers at 48s. weekly for tho average dependent family of four, as against £2 6s. 6d. weekly, suggested by the secretary of the Labour Council.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1986, 17 February 1914, Page 7
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188LIVING WAGE INQUIRY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1986, 17 February 1914, Page 7
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