WAGES INCREASE
COMPLAINT OF INADEQUACY RAILWAY SERVANTS' PROTEST * • * A protest against the Budget proposals for a 7$ per cent increase in wages and salaries on tho grounds of its "total inadequacy" was contained in a resolution passed at a special meeting of the Auckland branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. The resolution was as follows: "That this meeting of tho Auckland branch of tho Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants views with indignation the total inadequacy of tho Budget proposals for a 7\ per cent increase in wages and salaries. We consider al,so that tho postdating of the increases should certainly havo been included in tho proposals as well as a restoration of the whole cuts. Considering that our reductions in salaries and wages have occurred periodically since 1922 we have > lost thereby many millions of pounds and we request the members of Parliament to take the necessary action to amend the proposals along the lines indicated, and also to realise that we lost approximately 35 per cent per medium of the wage cuts and wage tax."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22226, 28 September 1935, Page 17
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