HIGHER WAGES
SOUGHT BV FEDERATION OF LABOUR ON ACCOUNT OF INCREASED COST OF LIVING. GENERAL APPLICATION SUGGESTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. When the Arbitration Court sat today to make fixtures. Mr F. D. Cornwell. secretary of the Federation of Labour, said there would be a number of applications for increase in wages, and although the Government was doing all it could to check an increase in the cost of living, there were factors over which it had no control. He did not wish to wait till the cost of living had risen 20 or 30 per cent and would suggest that instead of numerous unions asking for increases, the Court might hoar a general application. Mr Justice Tyndall agreed to a conference in Chambers with thb interested parties, to discuss procedure.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1940, Page 6
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133HIGHER WAGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1940, Page 6
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