WAGE CUTS FOR BRITISH CIVIL SERVANTS

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 295, 25 October 1922, Page 13

WAGE CUTS FOR BRITISH CIVIL SERVANTS

Tho British Treasury lately announced that the wages of the temporary clerical staffe of the Civil Service would be reduced from September 1, in accordance with the rise and fall of the index figure of the cost of living. The effect of the decrease is estimated as follows: & s. «t. s s. a. 164 0 0 ... .. 16 0 0 200 0 0 19 1 4 274 5 5 23 13 8 348 10 4 ....,,... 28 5 8 484 17 1 ;.....«.. 35 4 4 757 10 0 .......... 49 2 0 On September 1 there will also com* into force ihe rev-sion of fixed and over-riding "maximum rates of overtime..

If tho bulk of the human race are always to remain as at presents slaves to toil , in which they have no interest; dimdging from early nior|&rr ing till late &t night for bare neces-? sitios, and w'itJi all the intellectual ftnd moral deficiencies which that iiSplies; with9ut Resources either iix mind or feeling; untaught, for thiy, caanoit be better taught than fed J selfish, for all their thoughts aro re-

quired f»r themsel~€'s; withoiit 12f»

terests or' sentimeoits as citizens and members- of society; and with a sensS of Injustice rankling in. their zainds> equally for what they have nofaiid for what others, have—l know no& .what there is which shauld make a person of any oapac'ty of reason con* cern himself about the destines of the human race.—John Stuart Mill. * * v &

The tent of a soofl and toad __ con*, stltution is the amount of good an* bad which the use of it mates p6ssible. That is the test for the CXmreJi, the 8-ate, Trade Unions an| oi every institution.—C. Delisle Burns.

# « ■* <» • The world Is stocked with enough and to tho injury of the rest adpustnients avf few sated the many starvisdt

Oiy , tqol|haye become our masters; to WU Wβ Work fox , tiistn', $ty&.'£<%Sstey for: up. They oug.Ut td t^-.'idf^elV • lor reaigqjJtC'and healthy life; they &*&, In fact, the mcgnu of our ciegen.- 4 - "j-aa I ago.