THE SALARY CUT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 3, 4 July 1922, Page 5

THE SALARY CUT

10 TH- EDITOR. Sir, —In the exciting agitation going on, among Government servants stressing the contention that if a further."cut" is made their remuneration will be insufficient to provide a proper standard of living, it may perhaps not be out of place to point out -that no consideration appears to have been shown by them for many of the Government servants retired on small superannuation allowances. Yet a large number of these people are trying to exist on incomes varying from £80 to'£lso per annum; but the present officers and others drawing their lucrative salaries of £300 a year and over apparently have no thought for the old ones who are bending over their ill-treatment like ripe corn in the harvest field under pressm. of heavy wind and rough weather. - This element of selfishness seems to be paramount judging from the signs on the horizon, and does not redound to the credit of Public servants who have not reached the retiring age. I suppose the old Scriptural injunction, "Inasmuch." does not come within tho scope of their calculations, because old commands, like old. people, are evidently considered by: persons of callous tendencies to be. only fit for the mental and physical scrap-be'-p.—l am, etc... . ST. MICHAEL. ist juiy. -. ■ ■; V ■