ALLEGED SWEATING.
COMPLAINT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT. AUCKLAND. February 6. A telegraph messenger signing himself " One of the Oppressed" has written to Ihe Trades and Labour Council drawing attention to the fact that the department compelled the messengers to work 15 hours on Christmas Eve and four hours on Chiistmas and Boxing Days without payment for overtime. The council decided to send a copy of a resolution to the P( stma«ter-eeneral expiessing deep regret that the Government which had placed laws on the Statute Book ameliorating the conditions of workers were sweating their employees, especially in the Postmaster-general's department.
If a person joining or leaving a steamer at Lytlelton puts his spare shirt, collar, and tie in a candle box instead of a portmanteau he has to pay a charge of 3dThe'other evening a man carrying part of his luggage in a case was waylaid by an official, and was compelled to disburse the wharfage fee. If the outer «n-ering had been leather and. large enough to require the use of a hor«e and cart, it would have gone through unchallenged, but the wood was a. nested.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 88
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186ALLEGED SWEATING. Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 88
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