ENGINEERS' WAGES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 208, 27 May 1908, Page 4

ENGINEERS' WAGES.

1.'5 :Sir,Tplii : myCJaSt, |ro secretaries of Unions, !'.:I secretary of tho Society as being other than: a practical en-" I, gineea'. .. Now, nil your paper of 0110 day last wookj ! I • saw \vhere tho Society had been ap-' proaching local' shipowners for an increase in salary, and, later on, that the increase had been granted. .An increaso'has been granted fright-enough,\but..it.-.is. not the rise that tho mon. desired .'■"by'Y'good deal. It. is-an en'deayour"tci"poiut~T>iit" the weak; point in tho meii'.s armour that' I.am writing again- now; The men whose.duty it is to wait upon tho 'ownersiiuc-luded th<f Secretary arid .others,' whoso interests wpro.apartfrom'thosD of the. »mon ..ooncerned.'. 'I'lio/secretary is'-'already in; i: receipt^of a handsome, salary. for .tho .position, . and, apart from his'salary, does business with tho .mep's employers by virtuio'of his .position in ;a fimi ,of' oil and rubber goods merchants. A 'paid/ secretary oivho also is 'in'business/association 1 with shijh'owning firms.may find' his position embarrassing. Not only this, but tho latest'is the talcing of a' vofco,next month on the question of. a;iiso in tho sccrota-ry's pay. il;,hopa.tp:see at lia'st'part of this 'letter published in your valuable paper,' if only Jto bring engineers, to a 'soneo of reason beforo-they aro vasked-to vote. They, should consider where . thoyj-would bp. lainjjbtl _■ were-trouble to nriso between their employers Vind them- * selves.' '7 ?Koir '3oonsfarjr would be in a very '" euiban'assinfe aiid ,so would they.—l ..am, etc., " •'"'' ■■■ ; llay 23."; 'j; x TURBINE. ,;