EFFECT OF BASIC WAGE
AUSTRALIAN WORKERS LOSE
MILLIONS.
(United Press Association.—Copyright^ MELBOURNE, 31st August.
Judge Webb, Deputy-President of the Arbitration; Court, declared that the basic wage would cost the workers millions sterling. He claimed that anomalies created by the use of a formula. adopted by the Arbitration Court" for ascertaining the basic wage were responsible for this wastage. Inter, alia; he instanced the Perth unionists, who-/ he said, were entitled to a basic wage\ of £& is 6d a week, instead of the existing rate of £3 13s 6d, which was arrived at by the Court's formula.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 9
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96EFFECT OF BASIC WAGE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 9
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