real hardship
under which the
being called on
labours in
duties so onerous
Agent.
to undertake.
for so very inadequate a
valary. A few days ago.
postal breinees
I was engaged in
● from Go'clock in the
morning until half past " / in the evening; to-day I expect to be equally busy. Devring this and the following
weeks the
very complicated Mails for Australia will have to be made up, and there will be besides direct mails
and Vancouver. I cannot but
for London
"feel that the enforced imprisonment / for- such it practically is) and the deprivation
of nonscary
exercise are
recompoused. If the
most.
the sum
"inadequately
of Forty dollare
a month is a fair equivalent of the cointers work at this port (which my predecessor,
far from
Mar Mortimore, decures me is
being the case) the summe's work demands
at least twice that sum:
I
that the representations which the Postal Agents had the honour to
this
address to
you last Antimmen on
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eubject did not bring forward. the griefs of the writers with sufficient explicitness . The request for an increase of
of salary which they then proffered and which becomes more
~r
and more reasonable as their work continues
lorivorease, L
ll
of
• perfectly independent & the fall in the rate of the dollar. Here the dollar still at 4/2 they would still be _ entitled to claim that the enormous increase
1
in their work and responsibilition called for at least sorne increase in the mumber
of
dollars paid them as remuneration. Should an adequate increase be made they would cheerfully undertake those mcreased duties;
as it is
loo
OLO
often accept them
6 from a feeling of
they under protest, and
'
it were
consideration for the public . Such a feeling, however, may
at some time prove of less
force than the growing and the Agent may,
Deneu
" of hardship,
of pressum
in a moment
send in his resignation. How embarrassing
The
a sudden act of this
be consequences of a se
kind would be, need hardly be pointed
bject
out
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