RAILWAY WORKERS’ RESOLUTIONS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —“ Democrat ” expresses the opinion that ‘ 100 Per Cent. Patriot ’ “ knows absolutely nothing regarding the wages and conditions of the railway workers,” and, further, challenges him to “ produce any Arbitration award in New Zealand where tho workers receive as small a wage as they do at the Railway Workshops, even before the superannuation is taken off.” Strictly speaking, the Workshops employees are not railway workers, and are not entitled to the concessions—viz., free passes—they receive. Then he states “ the average worker in a warehouse or shop gets an allowance of 10 per cent, on the cost of clothes, etc., the family requires. What about the Rail way men’s Purchasing Association, that gets 12j per cent, from the drapers and boot retailers on the purchases made by its members, who joined the Consumers’ League in an endeavour to get further discounts from other tradesmen, which would mean eventually the closing down of several retail establishments. If the wages outside are higher than those paid in the Workshops, why do they remain State employees? I am, etc., Efficiency. September 16.
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Evening Star, Issue 23683, 17 September 1940, Page 5
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184RAILWAY WORKERS’ RESOLUTIONS. Evening Star, Issue 23683, 17 September 1940, Page 5
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