WAGE FIXING
NOT BOARD’S FUNCTION
By 'telegraph—Prose Association)
MASTER-TON, Dec. 13
Notwithstanding anything. that has appeared in the..-press, or that Mi Poison has saicl on the public plat lormT- the-cold hard iiaet remains, said Mi Rurdekin, , -/Deputy •• Chairman oi -the. Unemployment Board), to-nighr tiiaftMt/vwas the /policy of the Unemployment Board not to interfere with the existing -scale, of wages in Nen Zealand:" The "employers and employees were left absolutely free to main t heir own bargains as to wages. The Act gave the Board no power to fix wages, and the Board was not usurp ing a function it did not possess. It was leaving the Local bodies to fix the rates according, to their own local conditions, and the individuals to do so by mutual agreement. The Board merely subsidised up to 7s per (lay. /'•
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1930, Page 3
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136WAGE FIXING Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1930, Page 3
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