CIVIL SERVANTS’ PROTEST.
SCENES AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE. , PROTEST ACAINST RATES OF PAY. By Telegraph—Press* Associat ion—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. i (Received September 4. 9.15 a.m.) LONDON. September 3. Two thousand Civil Servants demonstrated in Trafalgar Square, protesting ' against the rates of pay fixed for 5000 men and 2000 women who were recently given permanent appointments, alter serving in a temporary capacity for several years, and after passing an ex animation. Speakers declared that the rates, j ranging from 57s weekly for thirdi grade clerks to 70s weekly for first- | grade clerks, are 7s to 20s below tin* amounts paid to tbe temporary employees who failed at the examination, and are also below the rates paid to manual labourers.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16829, 4 September 1922, Page 7
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