NOT ENOUGH PAY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 92, 16 October 1934, Page 14

NOT ENOUGH PAY

CO-OPERATIVE WORKERS

APPEAL TO MINISTER (By Telegraph—Press Association.) "WESTPOET, October 15. Dissatisfaction with the co-operative contract system under -which the- Westport aerodrome at North Beach is being constructed by the Public Works Department found concrete expression today when fifteen men who have been engaged on the work refused to carry on any longer, and waited on the Mayor, Mr. Kilkenny, to represent their grievances to him. The men contended that the system did not permit of their earning 5s a day, representing to three-days-a-week men only 15s a week, as compared with the ordinary relief rate of 30s. ' The Mayor and three representatives of tho men interviewed Mr. Bascand, Public Works engineer, who stated that the contract system was that which he had been instructed to inaugurate, and that in the absence of instructions to tho contrary there was nothing he could do. As a sequel to the discussions the Mayor telegraphed to Mr. P. C. Webb, M.P., asking him to interview the Minister immediately and have the position reviewed, or give the men the opportunity to work elsewhere. Failing that, a request for sustenance is to be made.