PUBLIC WORKS EMPLOYEES
# BETTER CONDITIONS DESIRED. (P*ESK ASSOCIATION TJSUCOBAV.) "WELLINGTON, September 26. Several matters relating to the conditions under which Public Works employees are engaged were brought before Sir Joseph Ward by a deputation from the New Zealand Workers' Union. Mr Cook, general secretary, said^ dissatisfaction still existed with the piecework rates. There were dozens of men who were not making more than from 8s to 13s a day. There was also the question of loss of privileges through men being transferred from a standard job to relief works. It was further asked that free railway passes at the annual holiday time be granted to Public Works employees and their families in v<srv isolated districts. Sir Joseph Ward promised to confer with the Minister for Public Works and the Minister for Railways. Ho was sympathetic in regard to both the request for free passes and the question of the loss of privileges where men were transferred to relief works. Mr H. E. Holland, M.P., who introduced the deputation, said there should be some method of appeal, if it was felt that the rate was fixed at too low a point. Sir Joseph Ward: Quite so.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19735, 27 September 1929, Page 10
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