BRITISH POSTAL DEPARTMENT.
DEMAND FOE INCREASED WAGES.
LIKELIHOOD OF TROUBLE,
Praw Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, December 2,
The spread of the demand by postmen for an all-round 15 per cent, increase in their wages, instead of the Government's offer, has caused anxiety as to what may happen at Christmas. There are ominous signs of dissastisfaction in London. It is reported that two typewriting machines at the Central Telegraph Office were dropped from the topmost landing to the ground floor and smashed, that an important telegraph apparatus has been tampered with, also a time-book recording the operator's temporary ' absences, and that many desk keys have disappeared. The malcontents urge that the proposed strike should assume the form of worMn" according to the rules, as it is believed that these are so mutually contradictory that the /whole service will be speedily reduced to chaos.
SABOTAGE DENIED.
FACTOR AGALNST A STRIKE,
LONDON, December 3. (Received Dec. 3, at 10.35 p.m.) The Post Office sabotage is officially denied. The men's fear of losing their pension rights is a factor against a strike.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15938, 4 December 1913, Page 7
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177BRITISH POSTAL DEPARTMENT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 15938, 4 December 1913, Page 7
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