BANK CLERKS' SALARIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 229, 21 June 1919, Page 8

BANK CLERKS' SALARIES

Sir,-! womler if Mr. Tlnrold Bcauchsmp ever lends the daily panel's, and. if so, did it over strike.him now sadly misinformed he is in regard to the question of whether Ihe bank staff we.ro snlibhed with their nay or not ? 1 eonsider that his remark that it was only fioiiio incompetents that were dissatisfied shows that lie is either ignorant of the seething discontent flint exists or Hint lie knows of it ami is content to allow hundreds of men to help earn nearly 'mil.lillll profit- for the hunk, while the pay of 7,"> j-.pi- cent, of them is a mere existence.

Mr. Iknuchamp could only name about four branches in New X.enluiid in wliieh (he slal)"M'iiiiiiuiied (lint llioy were satisfied* Lot mc toll Mr. Beaiichani[) mar I know hundreds of his staff personally, and 1 further know what their s-nlaries are, and have no hesitation in staling that, their rate of pay is a disgrace to the wealthy institution that employs them. Bank managers in dozens of towns in New Zealand are paid p. lower salary Ihnn scores of malingers of commercial firms in the same towns. Yd: these 6ainn (inns are only a l'ew of dozens which the bank manager has lo control. I can name slock auctioneers, jirodiieo managers, and departmental managers in

dozens of firms in Now Zealand «'li<> ar# drawing salaries than the bank managers who lmv<; (ho responsibility of tin*. businesses ot their respi-i-in'e tirm*. I challenge Mr. Beauchain]) lu ikihio the number of married men in tho iianic of New Zealand, the number (>f .years they liavu served, and (o slate their salaries, and ,-ee it' then; would not bu an outburst of indignation u-l'.U'h would make liim alter tin- existiiijj stale, of affairs before lie leaves (lie Dominion. In conclusion, Sir, I would just liko lo say that the Hunk of New Zealand stall' in all the main towns work longer hours and for le=s pity than any oilier commercial concerns in the Dominion, mid J challenge him to disprove ;t—l oiii, etc., T.IIK li'A'l'ilKl! 01' (PRESUMABLY) ONE 01' Tlll4 INCOM I'KTBVi'S. ' [Other letters un similar lines are to hand. In (he main, they merely repjat the arguments published above and in previuus letters.]