BASIC WAGE.
QUEENSLAND RATE TO STAND.
(Received Monday, 8.45 p.m.) BRISBANE, March 7.
The Arbitration Court dismissed the application of labour unions for an increase of 10s weekly in the basic wage, which therefore remains at £4 5s weekly.—(P.A.) MB. LANG’S PROPOSAL. PUTTING £7,500,000 ON WAGES BILL. (Received Monday, 8.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 7.
The State Premier (Mr. Lang) advised the Labour caucus that he proposed to 1 introduce a Bill to increase tke basic wage from £4 4s to £4 10s 6d weekly. It is estimated that if the Bill passes it will mean an addition to the State’s wages bill of seven and a half millions sterling annually.—(P.A.) PROPOSAL TURNED DOWN. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSIONER TO DECIDE. (Received This Day, 1.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 7. The caucus turned down Mr. Lang’s suggested increase in the basic wage, which he proposed to force through the Assembly to-morrow, and decided to refer it back to tho Industrial Commissioner and let him fix the new basic wage. It is understood that the opposition of the caucus also resulted in Mr Lang abandoning an intention to impose a tax on newspaper advertisements in place of tho halfpenny tax on newspapers recently declared unconstitutional.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 8 March 1927, Page 5
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