LABOURERS’ WAGES
DUNEDIN DEMANDS HALT LOCAL BODIES FIGHT CLAIMS Press Association. DUNEDIN, To-du> . ”1 want tha Arbitration Court to justify itself to ths public why local bodies should have to pay 66 2-3 per cent, increase in wages since 1914, and private employer:: only 61 per cent. It is driving us to ths private contractor.” Thus spoke Mr. G. A. Lewin. town clerk, when telling the Conciliation Council this morning that the claimof labourers employed in Dunedin local bodies would be strenuously opposed. The claims of the various classes of labour ranged from Is lid an hour to 2s 3d. Mr. Lewin stated that Is 10d fully covered the increased cost of living, and taking the actual figures the demand worked out at 66 2-3 per cent, increase.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 9
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128LABOURERS’ WAGES Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 9
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