"VICTORIA 'BROKE' "
A PLAIN STATEMENT
CANNOT P4Y WAGES
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. (Received 23rd Sept., 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Giving evidence before the Arbitration Court regarding the position of the Victorian Railway Department, . the Chairman of the Railway Commissioners, Mr. Clapp, said that the Victorian Government, speaking plainly, was "broke" and did not know how to meet its pay roll. , That is not an exaggeration, he said. "It is said that no one will take the name of the Government on a piece of paper."
. A meeting representing 80 per cent. of the members of the Victorian Public Service Associations agreed to the scheme of rationing, proposed, by the Government, or alternatively, a percentage reduction in salaries.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 73, 23 September 1930, Page 9
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