WELLINGTON CENTRAL
"Don't do as I do, do as I say seemed to be Mr. Fraser's attitude wheri making wage laws, said Aircraftman C. G. Scrimgeour last night at a meeting in the Cambridge Terrace Congregational Hall, which was filled to overflowing. Much had been said about the alleged heartlessness of employers, the candidate continued, but the most heartless employer -in Wellington, and indeed in the whole of New Zealand, was the State itself. In a public service which was always ■ notoriously underpaid, said Mr. Scrimgeour, little had been done to better the standard of living enjoyed by large sections of the Civil Service, particularly in the lower salaried groups. The scandal represented by the exploitation of many sections of the Civil Service, intensified by the man-power muddle, must cease, said Mr. Scrimgeour, and in the new Parliament, he hoped to / have the privilege of fighting this issue among other matters of principle which were vital to the welfare of the people and to New Zealand's present war effort and future at peace.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 54, 1 September 1943, Page 6
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