CIVIL SERVANTS’ WAGES.
PROTEST MADE IN LONDON. CLERKS PAID LESS THAN LABOURERS. LONDON. Sept. 2. Two thousand civil servants demonstrated in Trafalgar Square, protesting against the rates of pay fixed for 5000 men and 2000 women who were recently given permanent, appointments after serving in a temporary capacity for several years, and passing an examination. The speakers declared that the rates, ranging from 57s weekly for third grade clerks to 70s weekly for first grade clerks, are 7s to 20s below tho amounts paid to temporary employees who failed al the examination and that they are also below the rates paid to manual labourers. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2477, 7 September 1922, Page 4
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108CIVIL SERVANTS’ WAGES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2477, 7 September 1922, Page 4
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