CIVIL SERVANTS PROTEST
PAY BELOW MANUAL LABOUR RATES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, September 2. Two thousand civil servants demonstrated in Trafalgar square as a protest against the ratee of pay fixed for five thousand man and two thousand women, who were recently given permanent appointments after serving in a temporary oapacity for several years and passing an examination. The speakers declared that the rates, ranging from 57s a week for third-grade clerks to 70s a week for first-grade clerks, are 7 s and 20b below amounts paid to temporary employees who failed at the examination, and are also below the rates paid to manual labourers.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11307, 5 September 1922, Page 5
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107CIVIL SERVANTS PROTEST New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11307, 5 September 1922, Page 5
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