RATES OF PAY
SOLDIERS FROM CAMP. EMPLOYED IN FARM WORK. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURH. July 28. A declaration that soldiers released from camp for seasonal farm work would not be allowed to stipulate that their wages should be higher than the ruling rates was made by the Minister of Primary Production for War Purposes, Mr Polson, to a conference representative of South Island farmers today. “We will have to have a uniform, rate,” he said, “and it may be that the rate will have to be higher than you are contemplating.” Representatives complained that the “Burnham agreement” among soldiers who were to be released for wheat planting was that they should receive £4 10s for a five-day week of nine hours daily. “That is not right,” commented the Minister. “The men must accept the ordinary conditions. These men would, however, have to be paid as temporary workers. We can easily settle this by making it a condition of their release from the army.” A farmer said the producers had agreed to pay higher wages so as to get the labour. The Minister said chaos would reign if men from the' army went on to farms and worked under different conditions from those of ordinary workers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1942, Page 5
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