DIFFICULT YEAR.
EMPLOYERS HARASSED. MORE WAGE DEMANDS LIKELY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Monday. The prediction that further demands for wages Increases to meet the rise of living costs are likely in the coming year is contained in the annual report of the Auckland Provincial Employers’ Association. It was also stated that an attempt to bring all industry more or less under bureaucratic control was possible. “ Tiie past year has been an exceptionally harassing one through the confusion arising from the hasty industrial legislation of 1936.” states the report. “Many employers have been faced with unexpected heavy payments for hack wages and there has been dissatisfaction among the workers with strikes and unrest for which tlio past year holds an unenviable record.
“ This year employers are likely to he faced with exceptional -difficulties. There are many knotty industrial problems to be solved before the present tangle can lie unravelled.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 8
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148DIFFICULT YEAR. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 8
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