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THE CHINA MAIL,

CIVIL SERVICE QUESTION OF GREAT PUBLIC IMPORTANCE

THEIR REMUNERATION

things, now and in 1914, ary equal, equivocal position and lack of in- and in what axlary relations the dependent status deprive his action new classes and grades should stand of due authority in the public eye, to those they have replaced, are The official ride of necessity the questions requiring full-äxamination Treasury mutato nomine, and any and independent judgment by dis-offer made or agreement concluded Interested persons; but on the im- by it must be regarded as carrying The present position of the portant question of numbers some practically Anal authority; for the question of Civil Service remunera- light has recently been thrown."1t| Cabinet (the Treasury being al tion may well cause the taxpayer appears from the pamphlet above ready committed) has no - other some anxiety, says a correspondent referred to that, omitting, all now organ to enable it to re-examine the in the "Economist." As the Trea- Departments of State, in the princi-question, while in this 'as in other Bury Memorandum on the Civil pat old departments which retain matters the supposed final control Estimates of 1928 set forth, the most resemblance to their pre-war of the House of Commons means cost-of-living bone was estimated scope, the number of superior posts only in the last resort a vote of at 70 per cent. for the first half of (taking for this purpose those in confidence by a party majority. the year and 65 per cent. for the which the basis maximum is 51,000 The position well illustrates one of second, as against 75 per cent. and or over) has more than doubled the paradoxes of government, of From this fact, and which other conspicuous examples, 70 per cent. for 1927, with a con- since 1914. sequent saving of £1,400,000. The from the higher salaries now at-have been visible in the constructive saving on the first half of 1928 has tached to posts of which the general activities of some modern Chan- been realized; but though the index character of the duties remains cellons of the Exchequer, that to put figure for the second half has fallen unaltered, the pamphlet: concluded an administrative province under that there has been a considerable the supreme financial authority as anticipated, the corresponding reduction of the bonus is being element of "grading-up" of baafe is, in fact, to exempt. it from Nowhere in the salaries. If these figures and the financial control. strenuously resisted by the machin- ery duly provided for such purposes inference drawn from them are to present administration of the Civil be accepted, they would seem to Service is that Independent au- In the present constitution of the Service, and a sum of nearly three- affect the contention in the article thority brought to bear which quarters of a million is thus in in the "Economist" of Beptember a Royal Commission supplies, taking 22 on this subpect that present its evidence in public, and stating dispute. Moreover, the Treasury, on first contact between the oppos remuneration "no account whatever the grounds of its recommendations ing forces, made haste to offer half is paid to the expansion of life." fully in He report, to which the In any event, the question of what Treasury can then apply its un- this sum by reducing the bonus to

degree of expansiveness in the pay rivalled critical acumen and intim- a basis of 67% instead of to 65 of public servants is justified in the ate knowledge of the subject, before its decision. with the substitution of yearly for

present atate of the public purse is Government takes

of governance of half-yearly revisions and postpone-

not a matter to be settled by depart. After ten years ment of the next revision to

the Civil Service by the Olvil Ser mental authorities. December, 1929 steps which, if the

vice, the fruits are beginning to fall in the cost of living should

declare the tree. continue, may prove expensive in the ensuing year. The Service organizations, stirred to action by the ex-soldier clerks, who claim to

may

Cost of Living.

It was suggested, in the article of September 22, that the time has

come to

A verdict of Accidental Death

THE NURSE SAYS You must

Keep 'fit'

to

feel fit!"

LET PINKETTES

scientific attempt "a estimate of the cost of life on was returned at a Hampstead In- various grades so

that the Civil quest on Elphin Lloyd Jones, aged be secured (like the war pensioners) Service might become a criterion" 12, son of Mr. Tom Jones, Deputy nguinst all their ability to cost-an extended application of the Secretary of the Cabinet, who was of-living reductions, rejected 'the

dictam that the State should be the knocked down by a motor-car near Treasury offer as inadequate, and

Here, indeed, his home in Belsize Park, N.W. model employer. the matter now stands referred to is a wide sea for navigation, with A Committee of the National Whitley Council of the Service, very little down on the chart; but with the reference to inquire into shoals have been located at two points. It is essential that Govern- the operation of the cost-of-living ment, when it intervenes in wage agreement of 1920 and to make disputes (as on occasion it now such recommendations

must), should come on to the field Whatever the appear desirable." outcome of this may be, it is clear uncommitted to either side of the quarrel. But how, in the name of that the taxpayer stands to lose Cabinet solidarity, ie a Minister or at least the £350,000 offered by the official to do this if the Government Treasury for the current year, with has already set up its own wages

excess corresponding

the Estimates, and small hope of avoid- ing further losses in the years to come. In Introducing his last Budget, Mr. Churchill declared that reductions In the Civil Service were the surest method of economising and saving money to meet the large press for assimilation to them. For this reason when, 20 years ago, future Butomatic Increases of

the Liberal Government was expenditure to which the Govern-

That sense of general well-be- A pamphlet, developing its Labour policy, it ment is committed. Mr. Churchill's Budget Pledges and chose the alternative method of ing known as 'feeling fit' is large- Performances, recently published by leaving employers and trade unions ly dependent upon the regular the League to Enforce Public to find out by the method of trial functioning of the digestive and and error what wages an industry excretory organs. By correcting Economy, concludes, from

Es could pay in a competitive world, constipation, reviving dally intes- bentative analysis of the timates, that apart from and pledging Government not to falltinal regularity, regulating the the saving

bonus (which short of that standard in its capa-liver and aiding digestion, Pin- Government can kettes restore 'fitness,' cheeriness, itself is now being whittled away) city as employer.

on

OR

standards as a "criterion" to other Those standards nec- employers ? ċessarily make it a party to the dis pute, to sap nothing of the occasions they provide to one or the other side in otherwise peaceful trades to

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LAXATIVES AND LIVER REGULATORS, KEEP YOU FIT AND WELL

the cost of the Service as a whole and should follow the standards appetite, 'vim. Of chemists every- shows a substantial increase. The reached by good employors, but where, price 60 cents per vial. contrast between the Chancellor's must not attempt to lead. hopeful picture and this unofficial

But the difficulty of fixing stand- presentation of the reality is dis-ards of remuneration by the method estimates" is even of "scientiac quieting.

The Bonus System

greater than the danger of their The terms of reference above effects. In Australia, the land of quoted have been hailed in the bold experiments In labour legiala- Press as bringing into view the tlon, a Commonwealth Commission substitution of Dew permanent under a K.C. Bet up In 1919 on scientific lines the scales of pay for the bonus system. to decide Whether as steps toward that end wages necessary to keep a work- or otherwise, they are wide enoughing class family of man, wife, and to cover the reconsideration of the three children in a fair state of whole basis of the ofBolal cost-of-comfort, after laborious and minute living Index, its applicability to investigations, found a figure of households above the working-class £5 16s a week, which produced from level, the graduation of the bonus the Commonwealth statistician a from full percentage at £01 a year demonstration that the entire pro- to half at 5450, and nothing at duced wealth of the country, divid- £2,000; and-infandum renovare ed equally among the workers, would dolorem the supercut of 1921, on not yield that figure. And a, which the Industrial Court, as at the higher levels of remunera- Arbitrator, gave forth so uncertain tion, the larger proportion of in-

a sound in 1926. But before so come remaining after provision of large a question as the remunera- the bare necessaries of life, would tion of the Civil Service can be present more and more bewildering Batisfactorily disposed of there choices of alternative objects of ex- are other important points to con- penditure, the scientific method sider, which lie beyond the com- would be likely to lead to still more petence of the National Whitley absurd results. Council.

Finally, there is the question whe- The theory of the bonus system ther the governance of the, Clyn Is that it keeps the real wages of the Service by a branch of the Trea- lowest grades at the 1914 level, with sury through the machinery of the somewhat less favourable treatment National Whitley Council should for the better-paid, in harmony cover not only the administrative with the proportionately larger details that arise day by day, but advantages secured by unskilled also important structural questions. labour as the outcome of the war such as in the past have been re- period. If the basic scales through fered to Royal Commissions. The out the Service had remained sub- logical postulate of the Whitley stantially as in 1914, the problem plan, that the men on both sides of stabilization, when the time was of the Council table are dealing with ripe for t, te.,, when changes in matters at their own financial risk, price-levels had become so gradual is necessarily absent when the "em se only to call for resettlement of ployers". alde is replaced by an incomes at considerable Intervals of "official" side dispensing public time, would have been the simple money, and, in fact, forcing other one of determining at what point in members of its own class among the the scale the bonus percentage representatives constituting should be permanently pegged, in staff" side. Of the absence, at the following list of some of the view of the trend of prices. But, the present time, of represe highest points on the Island and

in fact, the whole structure of of the higher classes of Mainland is published:

Feet, classes, grades, and salaries has vante from, the staff ide

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