WHITEHALL WAGES.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1926, Page 2

WHITEHALL WAGES.

LONDON, December 14. Eight thousand Civil servants attended a demonstration at the Albert Hall, W., last night in connection with a movement to resist attacks on present standards of wages, and at three overflow meetings held outside a further 5,000, it was estimated, were present. Moving a resolution “ pledging the Civil Service not only to resist any attempt further to depreciate Civil Service standards of remuneration hut to prosecute the claim for reasonable standards of life for all those who serve the State,” Mr J. YV. Bowen, general secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers, said that out of the total annual cost of £223,000,000 only £11,000.000 went in Service allowances, and other administrative? expenses. The increased cost of living was not covered by the bonuses paid and ffierwere thousands of Civil Servants below the poverty level. A GERMAN ON LONDON. BERLIN, Dec. 13. A Berlin newspaper recently sent a special correspondent. Herr Kauder, to Ixmdon to describe the city and its inhabitants. This is what he writes: The city is now getting a couplo of really modern hotels and soda-foun-tains. Tho traffic conditions are daily getting more and more chaotic. Parents say to their children before they leave for school, “Mind you don’t get kii*- » ed. . . .” ‘ -G The Londoner accepts America’s intellectual decadence, but not her iniative—he is too lazy for that. London life is becoming stagnant. It offers none of that deafening mechanical tumult which at least New York has to show. The Londoner is beginning to find everything too educated and too highbrow. London’s taxis cannot compare with those of Berlin. They must have been built before tho Flood.