TOTE WORKERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 31 January 1920, Page 5

TOTE WORKERS

HIGHER WAGES WANTED. Says the Auckland Star: The latest. Se-^u °il ot-1 c c °wmunity to be imbued with the idea of unionism is the totalisator employees, which can number in its ranks clerks, accountant*, and school teachers, etc. At present the afiaars or this party are carried on under an authority styled the Auckland TotalKam? r Em Ployees' Association lhey are after higher wages and improved working facilities, and state that they are forced to seek the advantages to be had from the industrial statutes of the Dominion through the employers refusing to meet them in conference to consder matters which they wish to have remedied I The men claim that totalisator turnovers have trebled within the last three years but the staff handling this vast sum of money has only been strengthene x tV the ext«nt of about 15 per cent, ihe present membership of the association is approximately 100.