BASIC WAGE
FEDERAL ARBITRATION COURT’S JUDGMENT SCHEME OF ENDOWMENT SUGGESTED By Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright (Rec September 23, 10.15 p.m.) Melbourne, September 23. In tho Federal Arbitration Coixrt Mr. Justice Powers delivered, judgment on t.ho basic wage question. Ho suggested a schema of endowment in which there would be one fiat rate fixed for all single and married men. This would require a basic wage of A’4 weekly. Under the proposal .X 3 10s. would then lie paid every worker, married or single, ths other 10s. to be paid to a fund controlled by the Federal and State Governments, and parents would receive for each living child ’ under fourteen years 10s. weekly. Air. Justice Powers added that the Constitution would have to lie altered to permit of the operation of the scheme.—Press 7 ssn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 310, 24 September 1921, Page 7
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132BASIC WAGE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 310, 24 September 1921, Page 7
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