REDUCTION OF PAY

Hawera Star, Volume L, 16 February 1931, Page 4

REDUCTION OF PAY

CIVIL SERVICE PROPOSAL.

PROTEST FROM HAWERA

Representatives of various, branches of the civil service held a well-attend-ed meeting at Hawera during the weekend and the following resolutions were carried:

(a) “That this mass meeting of Hawera civil servants emphatically protests against the proposed 10 per cent, reduction in their salaries and wages, thus reducing thousands of members below the standing paid to relief workers. With the first reduction of 17 per cent, in 1922, the cost of living was 42 per cent, above tlie pre-war level, and now that the cost of living is 62 per cent, above, we consider a 10 per cent, reduction unwarranted, drastic and unreasonable. We cannot accept the Prime Minister’s assurance that the cost of living will he reduced in comparison.” (b) “That this meeting emphatically disagrees with the handing over by the Government of a social institution to private management free from political control, and would like to know 1 why such action should be taken with the railways any more than with the Post and Telegraph and Police Departments.”