WAGES CUT

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11452, 28 February 1931, Page 4

WAGES CUT

“NOBODY WILL . STARVE/’

PREMIER’S - ASSURANCE TO .o ; UNEMPLOYED.

CPress Association!! „ - WELLINGTON, Feb. 27. _ Further representations on behalf of the unemployed of .Wellington were maeje t-o the Prime Minister, and Min.pf Babor to-day- by a deputarion representing the Wellington Trades Labor Council, -Reference was .mad© to tho plight of a number of men, and tbe Government was asked what it intended the.'situation. The Minister of Labor intimated that- ho rvoula be seeing- tlie Mayor of Wellino+on that, day, and hoped than would bo- possible to arrange for all men to be absorbed. The, Prime. Minister said every effort was being, made by the Government to overcome the difficulty,' but there was a, certain responsibility on local bodies. Nobody in New Zealand would bo. allowed to starve. •

P. AND T. WORKERS’ PROTEST

CPress Associations MASTERTON, Feb. 27. ■ At a meeting of -the Wairarapa section of the P. and T/gEmployecs’ Association, the following resolution was adopted: “That this section •emphatically ■ protests against, the Government's proposal £o reduce civilteryqnts’ salaries by ten pgr cent. ’ It is considered' that' the. rank; and’ file pf the officers of the general division are at- the present- time on. the. bhre living wage. It should be remefiabered that; wlipn the;, east of living, rose oyer 60; per cent, abdvp*. the.’ 1914; leyel,. the .salaries of tbe f ; P, and employees were,; increased 1 - • approximately 30 per cent, as hgains? the-60 per cent., rise to employees outside the department, who wer e covered-,By Arbitration Court a wards .TheaboTO hsures should, therefore, bo taken r