LABOR COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1918, Page 4

LABOR COUNCIL.

EMPLOYMENT OF REPATRIATED SOLDIERS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, March 2:!. At a meeting of (lie Labor Council it was resolved to communicate with the Federation of Labor, suggesting a.-tion of n national character, through the federation executive, regarding the repatriation of soldiers. A recommendation was made, on the fallowing lines: An agreement between the Government and the federation, providing for facilities for employing incapacitated soldiers either as under-rute workers or learners, the agreement to be an Order-in-Cdmicil, wages to be lixed by a soldiers' employment board, consisting of employers, discharged soldiers, Government and trade inclusive of the Government subsidy, to be paid to a soldier is not to be less than the minimum sum of the union wage, and to be borne by the State. This to be a direct tax on the land values of the Dominion, the minimum rate to be exclusive of pension, and to continue during the currency of the under-rate permit in the period of the apprenticeship of the soldier. The Pension Board shall not review pension during the period of apprenticeship or the currency of the permit, and to be estimated from the first grant till the soldier is deeiarad a competent worker.