Civil Service Protest Over "Wage Freeze"
LONDON, March 17.
Mr. A. J. Day, the spokesman for 500,000 civil servants, sent a bitter letter to the Prime Minister, Mr. C. K. Attlee, telling him of their ‘sense of injustice." and accusing the Government of having “made a mockery” of the wage scale arbitration.
Mr. Day complained that the civil servants are victims of an “absolute wage freeze.” lie reminded Mr. Attlee that the Treasury cancelled a promise to give increases to top-ranking officials from last October.
Mr. Day added: “The staff side finds it difficult to believe that the Government would support any other employer who acted this way.” Mr. Day reminded Mr. Attlee that he said on the election platform, “There is no absolute wage freeze,” but added: “There is in the civil service.”
The letter said that when Treasury officials instruct arbitration tribunals to reject civil service claims regardless of their merits “it comes very near to treating the tribunals as though they arc creatures of the Government.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23207, 20 March 1950, Page 5
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