PUBLIC SERVICE “CUT”
“UNEQUAL SHARE OF BURDEN.” (By Telegraph. Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. A deputation representing the Public Service Association, the Educational Institute, the P. and T. Employees’ Association, the Railway Officer’s Institute, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, the Railway Tradesmen’s Association, and the Enginedrivers, Firemen and Cleaner’s Association, to-day waited on the Prime Minister, Mr Forbes, and placed before him their views on the 10 per cent “ cut ” in State employees’ salaries. The main point brought forward was that the proposal 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 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 the question was one for Parliament to decide whether or not his policy was to be ratified.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3262, 19 February 1931, Page 5
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