MORE WORK REQUIRED
(To the Editor.) Sir,—l would like to ask the Minister of Public "Works through your paper whether a worker is compelled to accept his speed-up policy which is to come into force in June. Workers od the Western Hutt Road job have bean notified to that effect. I understood that a worker would be guaranteed a minimum wage of 16s per day, but this is not so.. I have been working on this job for over two months, and four of us have been filling 14 trucks per day of spoil. Under the co-opera-tive system we will be required to fill 21 trucks to make 15s 6d per day. We were informed by the officer in charge of the Job that if a worker cannot shift 28 yards per day he has no right to be on the job. Well, Sir, would the Minister inform us what is to become of a worker who cannot stand up to the co-operative system? The Western Hutt Road job has been commented on by the Minister as being carried out satisfactorily under the day-work system. Why the change? I would also ask him if he is aware of 6s per week being deducted out of. our wages through being unable to make up wet time on Anzac Day.—l am, etc, ONE OF THE WORKERS.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 131, 4 June 1936, Page 8
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224MORE WORK REQUIRED Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 131, 4 June 1936, Page 8
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