"THE ILL-PAID CLERK."
Sir, —What is the good of a clerk writing a letter like that headed "The 111-I'aid Clerk" in your issue of October 31. Those who know and commiserated the poor pay, and long hours of hank clorks and others tried for years to help them by legislation. Then, efforts (when on the point of success) woro blighted by the clerks themselves, who, in a petition signed by hundreds of them, prayed Parliament not to interfere witli tho rotations between their employers and themselves. Is it any wonder that tlioso who aro fighting for better conditions for tho clerks dropped tho mutter in disgust? Do not let us havo any winning from the, sort of person who sent in such a petition. Why, among all the hundreds of clorks in New Zealand there cannot bo found seven to start an industrial union of workers, and havo tho weight- of Labour to back them! —Yours, etc., DEMOS. Novombor 8, 1907.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 November 1907, Page 3
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