COST OF LIVING BONUS
PAYMENT MADE TO CANADIANS. OTTAWA, August 29. Half a million industrial workers in Canada, it is estimated, now are receiving the war time cost of living bonus, based on twenty-five cents a week for each rise of 1 per cent in the cost of living. The war time increase in the cost of living to July Ist was 11 per cent. The principle of the cost of living bonus was incorporated in Canada’s war time wages policy by Ordcr-in-Ccuncil. The Canadian Government granted a bonus to all civil servants receiving less than 2,100 dollars annually or who, receiving over 2.100 dollars, are manual workers without supervisory duties engaged on war work.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1941, Page 7
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115COST OF LIVING BONUS Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1941, Page 7
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