Expenses!

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 71, 19 July 1912, Page 4

Expenses!

FEDERATION V. ARBITRATION COURT.

The publication by various papers of the cost of conducting the affairs of the Federation of Labor for a period of eight months and ten days paves the way to somo interesting comparisons. This is what I find: Federation of Labor salaries for eighti months and ten days, £343; Arbitration Court salaries and fees of assessors for one year, £'4398; Federation of Labor travelling expenses for eight months and ten days (including cost of deputations, organising tours and Mr. Semplc's mission to Australia), £488 175.; Arbitration Court travelling expenses for one year, £1444. Tho total cost of conducting the affairs of the Federation of Labor for eight months and ten days was £2427. The combined salaries and travelling expenses alone of tho Arbitration Court wore £7832, but to this must be added cost of advertising, printing, stationery, rent, etc., particulars of which I have not obtained, also the amounts expended by the contending parties. Since the Waihi miners' first award cost them fully £1000 and the second award about £400 (th© private anaTigement they made with the company cost them practically nothing), it would be safe to add another £10,000 tio the cost of maintaining the Arbitration Court. — H. E. Holland in "Social-Democrat."