A MINIMUM WAGE.
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RESOLUTIONS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. OPPOSED BY LIBERALS. (Received Last Night, 9.35 o'clock.,) LONDON, April 10. In tlie House of Commons, Mr Will Crooks, Labour member for Woolwich, moved the Extension of tlie Trade Boards Act, to afford a minimum wrfge of 30s per week to every adult worker in urban areas ,a.nd an approximately equal standard for every adult worker in rural areas. He said that the nation was wealthy ,and could afford to pay, and some day the workers would make them pay. Mr Percy Aldcii, Liberal member for Middlesex, moved an amendment that the House would welcome legislation fixing a minimum where wages. were below subsistence point. Mr J. M. Robertson, Liberal member for Northumberland, declared that an univesal minimum would mean the absolute destruction of the whole principle of Trade Boards. A sum of £200,000,000 would be required to secure a 30s minimum. The arbitrary creation of a minimum wage would, he said, never attain the object m view.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 April 1913, Page 5
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174A MINIMUM WAGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 April 1913, Page 5
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