WAGE CUTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12704, 8 November 1935, Page 2

WAGE CUTS.

APPEAL TO PRIVATE EMPLOYERS MINISTER URGES RESTORATION (Press Association A PAPAROA. Not. 7: An appeal to private employers to follow the lead the Government hi granting further restorations of the salaries and wages was made by the Minister of Finance, Mr Coates, ill speeches in the Kaipanv electorate to-day. “Tho improvement in Hie public finances' in 1934: and 1935 enabled the Government to make a well-deserved restoration of the greater part of the cuts”, said Mr Coates. “During- the same period there has been 'ail improvement just as marked, in the .budgets 'of the majority of private businesses.' Many employers have recognised the sacrifices made* by their staffs during the depression, «nd have made complete or partial restorations of the cuts . imposed l in 1931 and 1932, when tho Government was forced to impose the cuts iii order to reduce‘posts: ancV a. similar . action was bak.cn by the. majority of private co if e'er its. NoVv that a Considerable measure of recovery has taken place, and there is a strong prospect of. continued' improvement, I would urge on private employers the lesirabilitv et cffebHiigbla further restoration;' iii ]iiie. with tlie policy of tlie Government- The evidence 'of improved conditioiisds: sp gmieftii that there should be scope for a fairly general restoratioh.”. . " ...