TRADE UNION CIRCULAR.
(To the Editor.) ' Sir, —In Saturday’s issue you printed ii copy of a circular sent out by a Trade Union secretary warning employees, among other things, to see to it that they always received their full pay. For the benefit of the gentleman concerned 1 would like to suggest that he send one of his circulars to the Government, as during a recent street day for the Red Cross appeal the staff of one Government department had Is taken out of their wages. On receipt of their wages several complained to the officer concerned that they were Is short and were informed that it had been given to the Red Cross authorities for badges. This apparently is only one more instance of the Government giving a lead —to break its own laws—as the law in this respect provides that only social security payments can. be deducted from wages .without the employee’s consent and the Government know this, or should, seeing they made the law, and yet they break the law and no one, not even the people most concerned, can do anything about it. —I am, etc., I ASK YOU.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 4 June 1940, Page 6
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193TRADE UNION CIRCULAR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 4 June 1940, Page 6
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