HIGHER WAGES
SOUGHT BY PAINTERS & DECORATORS. LIVING COSTS & INCREASED TAXES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The hearing of an application by the New Zealand’ Painters' and Decorators’ Federation for a general order under the rates of wages emergency regulations of 1940, fixing rates of wages in the industry, owing t<> the increase in the cost of living, commenced in the Arbitration Court today. Mr Robinson, of Dunedin, presented a long, written statement on behalf of workers. He submitted that the taxation provisions in the Budget made it imperative that the purchasing power given in the Court’s standard wage pronouncement of 1937 should be restored to the workers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1940, Page 6
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