SALARY CUT.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20174, 28 February 1931, Page 15

SALARY CUT.

' , POSTAL EMPLOYEES? PROTE3T. (PRESS AESOCIitfjON TBLEGBAJf.) .. Vsyf'^ • _ MASTERTON, February „ meeting-of the Wairarapa tion of the P. van<i T. Employees' 'Association the'followipg resolution carried: ' \ - "Thkt this section emphatically proteats against -the Government's propojsal to rating the- Civil, Servants' salaries by ten ser "cent. It is considered that the rank and'fitein theofficors^and' general division are at the-present time* on a bare living wage. It should be'remembered that when the cost of ; /living rose over 60 per cent, above the < 19lX level/the salaries bf'the'P. and T.' employees' wei-e increased approximately. 30' per cent.' fis rise to 'employees' outside, "the " Department who; .covered by Arbitration 1 Cftnrt awards. The abbvefigures should< therefore betaken irito consideration at the present tiibe. Farther, that if .the 1 cat is necessary, it should be Jma&e .an < a graduated scale." ,■, I ,' h | MOULDERS? ASSOCIATION. J A resolution nrotesting against the ! proposed 10 per cent, redaction in wages was ■ carried *Cfc the monthly, meeting on -Thursday evening of ; the , executive council of the New Federated Moulders' Association. -The council argued tha:treducti6n of' Wages would not cause the absorption of more i employees. The resolution or statement conclude-1 with a' declaration that the'workers were being unduly penalised, ,oii being asked to ductions of pajj, while, financial interests were' allowed to moJje the same s percentage',o{ profit, without equitable taxation. , ■