MORE COMPLAINTS

NZ Truth, Issue 88, 23 February 1907, Page 5

MORE COMPLAINTS

From City Council Employees.

A number of have been made to this paper of the manner m which the navvies engaged by the City Council ori; the reclamation works" on, the new, recreation ground being formed just below, the Kiosk.. It appears that hardly a day passes without one or. more of the navvies getting their Walking ticket, arid hew men put on the next day to take their place; No explanation is gi ven. The meri are simply told to get their time ■ and are.' sent about Itheir business. They are hot paid oi the Spot, either, .but. are given a sealed envelope marked "Not payable if opened;" and are told, to call at the Council pay-office between 10 and 11 next morntar*". Why the meh are not allowed to see theiiN own time is best known to (those m charge, but to the men, arid? the bossfes ' ought to knoW this, aiiything tihged with mystery is/a iriatter for suspicion. i But the injustice that ' , RANKLES IN THE MEN'S HEARTS \ '?'•■ most is the summary method of dismissal Without any explanation whatspever. Somp of , the men put off ate first-class navvies and- are able td hold their owri with> the best. Why> then, * are these men sacked, some after oirly a courile of days' wqrk ? Is.it' because ' a "mandate comes from some ' big unseen power ' 'Find rdo4 for BroWn arid Jones k in your gang?" or is. it juSt some petfty 'ganger's wdy of making believe he's - earning his wages J Whatever thp Cause the fact temain's that rrood and tried men ate bumped off at a moment's notice for no reason whatever, and ! others— not abler and often not so able ; Workmen—taken on m their place. There is something Wrong somewhere, and the Council might do well to enquire.