BASIC WAGE JUDGMENT
FEELING TN TRADE CIRCLES. Melbourne, September 26. Sir Joseph Cook has expressed entire agreement with Air. Justice Powers s basic wage judgment, but the dominant feeling in trades union circles is disappointment that wages have not been increased, some officials voicing the opinion that, in view of tho unsatisfactory result of arbitration, unions might decide to abandton Court proceedings.— Press Assn. [Tn the Federal Arbitration Court. Mr. Justice Powers delivered judgment on the basic wage question. Ho suggested a scheme of endowment, in which there would bo one flat rate fixed for all single and married men. This would require a basic wage of 414 weekly. Under tho proposal «£3 10s. would thfln bo pftid 'every worker, married or single, the other 10s. io be paid to a fund controlled by the Federal and State Governments, and parents would receive for each living child under 14 years 10s. weekly. Mr. Justice Powers added that the Constitution would have to be altered to permit of tho operation of the scheme.]
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 2, 27 September 1921, Page 5
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172BASIC WAGE JUDGMENT Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 2, 27 September 1921, Page 5
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