NURSES' WAGES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21464, 4 May 1935, Page 21

NURSES' WAGES

> '.ii» r.t>iru» or rua waits. < I ;i;, l u hospital mir.sc, and up ilit; I have always been a K :a v, -0' camojt funyo'.ii . " Labour party's views. f : f attended Dr. Acland's mi Sydenham. I was very very disappointed. 1o >hi th it th-.; Labour party's \v ,i *_,• si:t<.»it auainst the Citizen was the cut in the wases Li'.-'I titir.sf?.. Now. cither they i i.r.-non 1 .;:!. of the whole i,ii ..,i- 'hey ur<i deliberately pi*cnt > : •.rr.v wivn:; interpretation ,f /. to take a mean ad- > , th" Citizen Association , :.i;. ,u:di ... ; r.fi it over with my t'el- >./.,• i-i;r, . and we would like to V;i v-.ur p.;'d»;ri twi tilings. First of •5. vi' meet a lot of Sydenham :(ik ' s patients, and they treat u , nMjuri'y of oiher patients r . j. ud:« i v *'ry'.hinjjj for granted (as j-.r i.. work fur them is collar v<ii . :.ti for:;ct to say thanks for i,;> •«».• "' Jus ji' S< tvmi. !inr i: -arc in training i .-ion which will yivo us a when we are through. V.i-cten u; professions have to j.,.- :W tr-niijiy. Karitane nurses jj.iV a i,l' ,c;;o anil give their ser- % l'i. in.-. Maternity nurses, until <j.,4e t i et oily, paid a fee and worked very h.ird fi.r their training The massfu» > i.' New Zealand pay about £250 j::d mve their work in order to have a : which, is not any more x. rt'merjtiv.' than the nursing pro- :■> r.'ju. i to he: iiitaj because there I .jii;;ii -he only training one can y;et n: New Zealand wliicli will keep me i i 'he orofes-io:i. vV»; l:::o\v Dr. Acland, and we are r.,' to be carried away by any vitcrical nonsense such as I heard !:i •. mjL'ht. We nurses in training are, majoii'y of us. voting for Dr. .V:L.:id, it docs not matter what ticket } ; because ne is. and has for jsary yiurs, put into practice the of rueialism which so many, of •he politician* bke to tallc about and !oiS;et. F.i she- fir.-1 tune I am voting t I i-'. ;''iir ----Yours, etc., HOSPITAL NlinSE. H'.-n.o. A-lay 3, 1935.