LABOUR FINANCE
BONDS OR LEVY. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) SYDNEY, August 13. The newspapers are calling attention to the issue by the Australian Labour Party of bonds in support of the fund for assisting the City Labour Aidermen to secure . a return at the next municipal elections. The bonds are valued at £1 10s and 5s respectively. , The Council’s employees are expected to take some of them up, according to their rates of pay. A circular accompanying the bonds emphasises that most of the concessions which the employees enjoy today. were secured for them by the Labour Aidermen, and adds that 11 they are. not returned again, these concessions will be withdrawn. Some two thousand of a total of: _hv thousand, have been already paid. It is understood a number of the employees are opposed to take bonds, stating they regard them as a. forced levy.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19210813.2.13
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1921, Page 2
Word Count
146LABOUR FINANCE Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1921, Page 2
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in