NEW BASIC WAGE
FEDERAL STRIKE URGED
(Australian Press Association)
(Received. 10.35 a.in.) SYDNEY, Jainiarv 22
The Sydney Labour Council alter a heated argument, decided that its whole machinery should be employed in arranging for a Federal strike against the new basic wage. A big minority favoured an amendment to ask tile Federal Government to disallow the finding of the union officials. It is generally believed that the shortage of funds and abnormal unemployment would make ally strike a tragic failure.
The effort of the court's judgment is that tlie new Federal basic wage will be £3/18/2. A ton per cent, reduction ol all Federal award earnings for unions is <ited. representing reductions for' a hundred and thirty thousand employees in New South Wales, and
nearly three hundred thousand throughout the Commonwealth. There will he a saving of seven hundred thousand sterling in the Railway Salary Bill.
Air Brooks, a member of the Legislative Council addressing the employers Federation, said the reduction would reduce producing costs in Australia by seventeen and a-lialf millions sterling, and would create employment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1931, Page 5
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177NEW BASIC WAGE Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1931, Page 5
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