LABOUR FOR PUBLIC WORKS
A MINISTER'S EXPLANATION. The Minister of Public Works (Sir (Villiam Fraser) -was reported to have stated at Tauinnrunui last wek that he would not get all the men required for public works, and that it was not the business of liis Department to "bid against private employers" at a time of labour shortage. The Minseter informed a Dominion reporter yesterday that his remark had applied to tlio primary producers and not to employers in general. Ho felt that when labour was scarce, the Public Works' Deportment .' ought not to offer any special inducements to men to leave the Primary industries. ■ ' ■ .. The Public Works Department added Sir William Fraser, ought to fix and : maintain a "standard wage. ■ If it in. creased that lrasre at a time of labour ■■■ shortage in • order to • attract men, it 1 -'would be interfering with the primary '.industries. .
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 131, 27 February 1919, Page 5
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146LABOUR FOR PUBLIC WORKS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 131, 27 February 1919, Page 5
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