Go-Slow

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32396, 8 September 1970, Page 12

Go-Slow

Sir, —The majority of Post Office employees pay a percentage of salary to a superannuation fund, which, however high salaries may go, is most liberally subsidised by the taxpayer, dollar for dollar. If any group of State servants uses the power of direct action against the State and the taxpayer, it should no longer merit, or decently expect, these gratuitous dollars. In fact, its direct action should be met with direct cancellation of all further pension rights. Regarding degenerating “go slow,” anyone who deliberately and offensively does so in his daily work is creating for himself an unpleasant today and a very unhealthy tomorrow.—Yours, etc., A. B. CEDARIAN. September 7, 1970.

Sir, —“Irate Taxpayer” treats the above rather lightheartedly. I wonder if he is aware that this go-slow policy has been implemented by several militant unions without the general public’s learning about it, and I can assure him that it is not very funny for an employer to be blackmailed

in this fashion. His hands are tied because if he tells the so-called worker to get the hell out of it the cry of “lock out” goes up, so he has to put up with the sight of his employees lounging about the place doing little work but receiving full pay. It is about time the public woke up to the fact that the agitators in the unions are very quickly bringing about the ruination of this country. I sometimes wonder if this is, in fact, their true objective.—Yours, AN EMPLOYER. September 7, 1970.

Sir, —I was simply aghast to learn that the Post Office clerical workers had decided to “go slow” pending negotiations with the Government for higher wages. These same employees are, to the best of my knowledge, already well paid, or is everyone else underpaid? They also receive sick leave benefits, and superannuation on retirement. Could a spokesman for the Post Office please quote for the benefit of the public (who already pay exorbitant taxes) what a female clerk with average qualifications, school certificate or university entrance, receives after, say, 10 years service, and similarly, what a typist receives, gross wage?—Yours, etc..

DISGUSTED. September 7, 1970.