ALLEGED UNFAIRNESS TO WORKMEN.
[To the Editor.] Sir, —I should like to draw the attention of the public generally and the. Public AYorks Department to the apparent unfairness to workmen under which many are expected to work. Recently two competent, men applied to the local officer for the Labor Department for employment, and ho succeeded in getting them a billet on the local railway construction works, which they had to go out and see the Engineer in charge at Te Karaka, and were told they could have a job squaring sleepers at 10s per hundred. They went out the following morning to start their job, hut to their chagrin they found that men at the same work were receiving 10s per day and these men could at the most only do fifty or sixty for their 10s, whereas these two men -were asked to do one hundred for the same pay as the others got for their fifty or sixty. Sir, should not all employes, of equal capacity, be entitled to one scale of wages?—l am, etc., “FAIR PLAY.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2521, 7 June 1909, Page 3
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179ALLEGED UNFAIRNESS TO WORKMEN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2521, 7 June 1909, Page 3
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