INCREASED PRICES
IS ARBITRATION COURT RESPONSIBLE?
ADDRESS TO BUSINESS MEN
In an address to tiie Ku.ianga.hape Road Business Promotion Society ye*, terday afternoon, Mr. W. H. Cockedealt with the investigations ot the recent Industrial Commission into th working of the Arbitration Court h New Zealand.
Ho said that the principal .ugum.r against tile Court seemed to be thain unduly raising wages a similar rihad been created in the price of good, manufactured in the Dominion. W commission had had to decide whethtthe disparity between the sheltered and unsheltered industries was due t, tire fleets of the pronouncements of the Arbitration Court.
The disparity was not confined to New Zealand alone. It was world wide. There were indications tha' perhaps the difference in New Zealand was lower than in other countries. It seemed that the abolition of the Court would not make any differentas it had probably only registered the changes in wages and working conditions, which would have taken pl* ot as a matter of course.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 505, 7 November 1928, Page 6
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166INCREASED PRICES Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 505, 7 November 1928, Page 6
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