CIVIL SERVANTS VOICE PROTEST
COST OF LIVING MAY NOT FALL, THEY ASSERT
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, February IS. A deputation representing the Public Service Association, the New Zealand Educational Institute, the P. and T. Employees’ Association, the Railway Officers’ Institute, the A.S.R.S., E.F.C.A. and Railway Tradesmen’s Association waited to-day on Mr Forbes and placed before him their views on the question of a 10 per cent cut in the salaries of St£te employees. The mam point brought forward was that the proposal was one which put an unfair and intolerable share of the burden of balancing the Budget on State employees. It was stated that even if award wages were reduced by 10 per cent and if all other wages and salaries were equally reduced, it was not to be asserted that the cost of living would fall in proportion. It was further asserted that the Government could have no effective control over the rates of interest and also that a large number of State servants had entered into financial commitments on the present rate of remuneration. Mr Forbes said that the question was one for Parliament to decide whether or not his policy was to be ratified.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 7
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198CIVIL SERVANTS VOICE PROTEST Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 7
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