WHARE FLAT BELIEF WORKS.

Evening Star, Issue 20635, 7 November 1930, Page 9

WHARE FLAT BELIEF WORKS.

TO TKS EDITO*. Sir,—l have been informed to-day that the rates of pay on this work are anything in the form of n hying standard of existence. The case given to me to-dav was as follows For tiie month’s work, which nineteen days, the sum of £9 10s 2d was drawn, and out of this I was given to understand 13s was paid in bus faro, so that this brings the average wages down to below 10s per day. On top of this the worker has to wait five weeks before drawing any money at all. These families have to be supplied from tho depots till wages are paid, whereas if some alteration could be effected here some relief to the depots’ resources would result. My informant told me there were other cases which did not even reach this miserable low standard. This surely is n case for some serious investigation, to see if some increase could not be made. The rate quoted would be bad enough indeed for single men without dependents, but when it comes to married men with dependants, ns in this case, it is deplorable m the extreme.—l am, etc., P. Nkilson, Hon. Sec. Citizens’ Committee. November 6.