DISSATISFACTION IN CIVIL SERVICE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3350, 1 December 1919, Page 4

DISSATISFACTION IN CIVIL SERVICE.

RALWAYMEN AND COST OF ‘LIVING. ~ DUNEDIN, This D The Otago branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway .Sel-vants resolved to call on the Government to relieve the pressure the high cost of C'32:)nlodit.l'es is impfdsing on mem'bers of the. Second Divlsion of the Railways by granting the request of the executive for an increase of 2/ a day. They also consider the time has arrived when the Fainli and file of the service should have a voice in its management and control.- . _ .‘The Dunedin branch of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association resolved: “That this section enters an emphatic protest against the Government's action in not at once paying the‘ war bonus un-A doubtedly promised by Sir J. Ward, and to referring the matter to outside adjudication, seeing it is admitted by prominent mem<b-ers of the Cabinet that the promise was given but not recorded as a minute of the Cabinet, which is being used in an attempt toavoid payment, and which -states that the bonus will not be paid if the oificers receive the increase. VVe desire to point out that had re-classification not taken place the majority of oflicers would have received increments of salary_ and also that a large nfajority: of officers did not receive Such incre-; ments as should bring their salary 130-: the maximum to which last war bonus Q was paid, namely £330.!’ ' '