"I DON'T THINK I EARN IT!"

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 46, 17 January 1913, Page 8

"I DON'T THINK I EARN IT!"

It constantly occurs t hat- lingli,i) newspapers provide Australians with rare news about Australian happe\ings. A correspondent of the 'lronmonger' provides the following— I ( have never heard of an ironmonger's assistant who considered himself too well paid for bis services, ind I am confident that I shall v'cr meet with an employee who would refuse a rise when it was offered. Even Uriah Heep, with all his 'umbleness, was not averse to improving his position. One has to go "down under" to find such a phenomenon as a man ivho objects to having his wages increased. Such an individual is said, nevertnele.-is, to exist in Melbourne. He is a night wajchman who is paid 15s ; wee!;. A little time ago the Factories Department notified him that va the iesult of an award made by the Wages Hoard be would in future be entitled to -17s instead of -\~yn weekly: but, t« the surprise of everybody, the watchman replied that he was init.n satisfied with 455, and that on principle he must decline the incre w "as I don't think T «arn it., and i' y,m insist on my accepting the extri '-*> I sdiall throw up my job." According to the latest advices the post has not been vacated, but lest some of your subscribers should be tempted to rush o ffto Australia in search of work, it may be as well to say that not only are passages difficult to get just now, but that vacancies for assistants or night watr-binen are scirce in the Commonwealth.