WHERE WORK IS STEADY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8965, 3 August 1905, Page 3

WHERE WORK IS STEADY.

j The one general characteristic of railway employment, which is also its chief attraction, says a writer in the Windsor, jis its permanency. There are, it is true, a good many "supernumeraries" and "probationers" in the service; but when once ', placed upon the regular staff, a man, if he j keeps steady and works with moderate . efficiency, is usually retained until incapa- ■ citated by age, and in many grades he can , reckon upon receiving a pension upon re- . tirement. Even the men employed in the workshops are seldom discharged except for misconduct.

The worst that befalls the railway mechanic who is on the regular staff is to be placed on "short time," and the men engaged in working the traffic and in the offices have not even this to fear. The difference in the staff requirements of busy and slack times is adjusted by engaging or discharging supernumeraries.

The men whose names stand on the regular pay-rolls knows practically nothing of what depression of trade means to the generality of those who work -for wages ; nor do the higher officials feel that sense of insecurity in bad timea which furrows the brows of salaried servants in some other spheres of employment. For permanency, railway service in the- United Kingdom is practically as good as the service of the Government.

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