WAGE CUTS

Evening Star, Issue 21075, 12 April 1932, Page 10

WAGE CUTS

— ANOMALY IN GRADATION [From Oor Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, April 11. The possibility of serious anomalies in the operation of the graduated scale of salary and wage cuts imposed by the National Expenditure Adjustment Bill on the Public Service was represented to the Prime Minister by the officers ot the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, the deputation comprising Messrs M. C°nnelly (national sident), E. J. Dash, and J- Elhott (executive councillors), and L. M'livrrde (general secretary). It was pointed out that an employee earning up to £225 per annum would be reduced to the extent of 5 per cent, but that if his salary was £226 the cut operating would be Wper; cenL It was represented to the Prime Minister that under these conditions a man in charge of a gang of railway employees might find ms wages reduced to the same level as those he supervised The deputation recognised that the full 1U per cent, reduction could not operate it it would result in reducing the salary below that of the persons who were in receipt of a lower salary at the date of the cut, but the clause, as drafted, would, it was stated, result in a serious disabifity, and would tend to undermine discipline. , , , . . The Prime Minister stated in reply that he saw the importance of the point which had been raised, and he promised to go carefully into the matter.