WAGES CUT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 September 1931, Page 3

WAGES CUT

COOKS AND STEWARDS CLAIM EXEMPTION FROM GENERAL ORDER

COURT RESERVES DECISION WELLINGTON, Monday. After the hearing of evidence, the Arbitration Court reserved its decision in a case in which the Federated Cooks and Stewards' Association of Workers made applieation to j be excluded from the General Order I of the Court authorising a 10 per ' cent. reduction in wages. The special grounds upon which the applieation was based were : — (1) That the wages as fixed by the | Cooks and Stewards' Award never j came within the ambit of the proI nouncement of the Court relating to the fixed basic wages of such pronouncement. (2) That the Court of Arbitration, when issuing general orders for the payment of bonuses based on the cost of living, such bonuses were not granted to cooks and stewards. (3) In fixing the wages of cooks and stewards, consideration was given to the fact that in addition to cash wages they were also in receipt of food and lodging at a fixed sum of £4 per month. (4) That the whole of the reduction now applied only to cash wages and ignored the fact that consideration should be given to the allowances mentioned in Paragraph 3. (5) That the reduced wages ordered by the general order would place cooks and stewards 'in an infinitely worse position and far below the Court's standard.