RESTORING THE CUTS.
PREMIER’S DECLARATION. (Bv Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, April 22. A definite indication was given by the Prime Minister (Hon. M. J. Savage), in an interview, that the Government intends to legislate this session to restore to the 1931 level the salaries of public servants and to place all workers on the wage and salarv basis they enjoyed prior to the operation of the general order of the Arbitration .Court imposing the 10 per cent, cut on award wages. “You can take my positive assurance,” said Mr Savage “that there will be a restoration of all cuts, both inside the Public Service and outside, to the 1931 level. This was one of our election pledges. It will be kept. The whole of our case is based on the idea that round about the year 1931 substantial reductions were made in wages and therefore also in buy-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 121, 23 April 1936, Page 2
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148RESTORING THE CUTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 121, 23 April 1936, Page 2
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