WOMEN’S WAGES.
CIVIL SERVANTS OBJECT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Sept. 3. Two thousand civil servants held a demonstration in Trafalgar Square protesting against the rates of pay fixed for five thousand women who were recently given permanent app-ojintments after serving in a temporary capacity for several years and passing an examination. Speakers declared that the rates, ranging from 57s a week for third-grade clerks to 70s a week for first-grade, are 7s to 20s below the amounts paid to temporary employees who failed at the examination. They are also below the rates paid to manual labour***.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1922, Page 5
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97WOMEN’S WAGES. Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1922, Page 5
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