BASIC WACE QUESTION.
CONFERENCE AT MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, Oct. 16. The conference between the employers and employees, convened by Air Justice Powers to discuss the basic wage, has opened. Mr Justice Powers, m hits address, said that though it bad acted with the best intentions, the Court had not been doing justice to the workers, who had not been given the lull benefit ol the Harvester judgment, which was fixed bv Mr Justice Higgins as the basic wa"e. He stated that, taking the award from 1.018 to the end of September, 1922, the losses for the four and a half years to the workers, taking an average of all the capital cities oi_ the Commonwealth, amounted to L'oO «s bd per head. —Press Association.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2495, 19 October 1922, Page 1
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123BASIC WACE QUESTION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2495, 19 October 1922, Page 1
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