SWEATED CLERKS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 198, 15 May 1908, Page 8

SWEATED CLERKS.

" Clerks,"' declared a.delegateof: the; Sydney Labour ; Council - last -week;:,, '.'are' the worst paid and; most' sweated body. of • Work-ers-in the'whole of'the State."Mr. H. ; Morcor,- -. representing 1 : tlie ' Clerks'; -Union, brought tlio-matter'under 'the' notice of the Council in the fornr- of a ••'pfotesti'against the coriditions-of employment of shirb council clerks.. There was, he said; - a glaring instance of this afforded in a recent advertisement, of the Dugong- Shire Council,'-'in-viting applications for the position -of . shire clerk at £52 per annum. . The Stroiid Council had offered £70,' and , the Molong Council £100. The Clerks' "Union' considered that the Trades. Council should 'tako, some action, in tlio matter ; by joining ,tho. Clerks'' Union in a deputation •to the 'Government' on the subject. . The ' work of these clerks was ■ responsible and'important; The Government was supposed to set a sort of stan 7 dard in tlio matter of clerks': wages, blifc the only.Tecognisablo standard in general vogue appoarcd to bo to get the inen as cheaply as possible. The Clerks' Union hoped to remedy this stato of things, arid to generally improve the conditions or Mr. Duncan, another- delegate, declared. that sweating was rampant in-municipal and Government departments, some of which.-ho indicated. It' was resolved' to wait* upon, tlio Minister for Works, urging him to intervene in.regard to'the wages paid : to shiro council , clerks;;" ' .. .- . .. ..