SPARE-TIME WORK

Evening Post, Issue 12, 14 July 1936, Page 8

SPARE-TIME WORK

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —May I be permitted to draw attention to a practice which is as unjust as it is reprehensible. I refer to the practice of certain civil servants who, while in receipt of most adequate salaries from the Government, persist in competing with outside workers. If inquiries be made it will be found that most of these people are already financially independent, yet they deliberately seek and accept private work. A public servant is at liberty to resign from the service, but until he does resign, very serious objection can be raised to his accepting parttime outside jobs. His assured position and income enable him to secure work on terms that would be, quite unprofitable to the private worker. Every little extra is as grist to the mill to the man who already has more than enough.

But apart from that, in such times as these when unemployment is still very much with us, the idea of a well-paid Government servant taking the livelihood . from less-favoured : private fellow-citizens, is to say the least unfair.. Our present Government will surely veto immediately the unfair activities of its Own employees.—l am, etc.,

ANTI-GREED.