WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 100, 3 April 1916, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

IMPORTANT ARBITRATION DECISION. TEN PER CENT. INCREASE TO LABORERS. Per Press Association, Wanganui, April 3. The Arbitration Court made an important pronouncement; to-day, whieji is likely to have far-reaching effects upon the employers and employees of the Dominion. This is a memorandum to the builders and laborers' award. While declining to grant a permanent increase of wages to workers during the war, the Court' grants, owing to the high cost of living, a ten per cent, bonus to laborers during the war and three months reserving the right to review the decision should circumstances improve or become worse. The Court sugegsts' that ' employers generally might consider, the granting of a similar bonus. General satisfaction was expressed by Mr Reardon, representing the 'laborers, with the pronouncement. Mr Pryor, for the employers, also expressed satisfaction, and said he thought employers would do their duty. He hoped the; award would result in settling industrial unrest and the woollen mills trouble.