ELECTRICAL WORKERS
LiNESMEN’S WAGES INCREASED.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association > AUCKLAND, December 18.
An increase of £d per hour In wages' has been granted by the Arbitration Court to two out of six classes of workmen covered by the Northern District Electrical Workers’ Award. The rates for linesmen have been advanced from 2s 2d to 2s 2£d per hour, and for linesmen’s assistants from Is L)d to 2s. The term of the award is two years, from January sth, 1931, to the corresponding date in 1933. The special circumstances under which this decision has been made are explained by Mr Justice Frazer in a memorandum attached to the award. A dissenting opinion has been recorded by the employers’ representative, Mr Cecil Prime.
The memorandum of the president stated, inter alia:—“A majority of the Court considered itself bound by its decision in the Dunedin City Corporation Linesmen’s and Linesmen’s Assistants’ Award made in 1929 to increase the rates for linesmen and linesmens’ assistants. The Court, after having fixed a standard, must apply that standard until it decides to alter it. Mr Prime dissents on this point, and his dissenting opinion is appended.”
A PROTEST,
Mr Prime’s dissent contained the following comment: —“The adoption of this rate means imposing an added cost on an essential service. Such procedure at the present time is unjust, particularly in country areas, where producers are in urgent need of means to reduce their costs. The Court should take into consideration more fully the economic condition of the country and act in accordance with the exigencies of moment rather than be guided Uy what may have been done by a .small minority of employers more than a year ago, when general conditions were vastly different from those which are ruling to-day. The Advisory Board of the Auckland Employers’ Association passed a resolu* tion protesting against the action of the Court and decided to ask the Employers’ Federation to express a proteast on behalf of the employers of the Dominion.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1930, Page 8
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