CO129-533-13 Salaries- conversion rate of sterling 30-1-1931 - 21-1-1932 — Page 68

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LUNCH

AT

HOTEL CECIL.

To-day's Menu

165

þr the Colonies,

$1.10

Sir.

1.-Potage a la Reine

2.-Broiled Fish, Butter Sauce 3.-French Pork Chop Saute a la

Minute

4.-Stuffed Duck and Green Peas 5. Roast Sirlion of Beef

6.-Asparagus and Ham Jelly 7.-French Bean Salad

8.-Boiled Potatoes

--Baked Mashed Potatoes

9.-

(b)

10.-Stewed Cabbage

11.-Currant Biscuit

12.-Cheese

Fruit, Coffee, Tea.

monk song.

January 1930,

may

In the matter of

10.110 s

ong Kong Citizens veidub Civil Dervants

66

ʼn employees have had W_baLaBY_LEGLA FENTO, SHATRYAKống.

fortunate, to the GALI GI

¿d-age provision Inte...Valivoms with the vanishing-

17 tha

the WORKHOUSE

lave had usual large annual increments throughout slump & depression.

(b) have had this largely incremented salary BASICALLY INCREASED nú from Jan30

50% above citizen scale, (c) bince van 30 the Treasury rate of exchange has FURTHER INCRanbag this 100%

300% above citizen sosis, (d) Have their huge quickly earned pensiore awaiting them, not in depreciatedți

but in &'s STEKLIM.

(e) are y

endless privilegen * perquisites.

10 to 12 months" Vagation every_A3_or 2_yenɣu_op_FULL InY, Unlimited berthe salalph of (d) & (e), MORALLY, Civil bervants' salaries should be t of vitizenmå

OT (three) times greater,no at present.

-overnment pay, pension, pasquisites & privileges (for ex, giving unlimited

petrol to men, wives à families at 935 for which the oppressed Citizen paya.

of Britain.. is utterly foreign to Iratish justice, and is disprucing

INCREASE IN LIVINŰ COSTS.

wou.t

INCREASE, FIL.

Meat, Pagni Vegetables, Fish, Local Wages, Bhoes, Cloth, Nawapapera, Trams a Buses

Kilk 61%, Bread 20%, High Class Luxuries 25% to 75% All-round increase 25%

London price H.K, price #oreign Goods, considerably Libb than home prices 1,2, 21 London: $177 nereglo/6

Dee Leading article in K, K, "Daily Fress" 24/1/31,"Our amsing Dollar") admittin

that the purchasing power of the ☀ is almost as great as it was a year ago.

OVERNMENT SERVANTS will stress

DUT

== Hebe- their legal right to full Sterling equivalent

----- THEIR JŪLIAK HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ARMAĦED JULIAN (SHEER SHYLOCKISM

60%

(b) that their ¿U% increased pay will be used for the purchase of English

Goods, BUT ---- don't you, sir, believe it Govt, wives are as canny as any,

and the surplus#+# will go where the 100's of 1000's of surplus went last

INTO THE JAM, and it takes some pass-book manipulation to dispose

year --- se va de

of all.

The Hong Kong FUBLIC will not be satisfied until those HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS (or is it MILLIONS?) OVERFAY through SIC INCREASE & EXCHANGE OUT OF PROPORTION TO INCREASED LIVING COSTS, stolen from them in 1930 and now reposing in Civil Servants' BANKING ACCOUNTS is refunded to the kublic purse, or in default, SUBTRACTED WITH_INTEREST from JUTURE INCREMENTS, The Hong Kong Publio ask for JUSTICE ONLY.

THE CIVIL

Sincerely,

SERVANTS "CUT" IS THE SAME THING

AS THE CITIZENS INCREASE; AND 1930 REMAINS.,

(ONLY FROM JULY 1930

DOUBLE SALARY BUT CITIZENS NO INCREASE "TILL JULY & THEN ONLY

"CUT RATE

V

THE HOME REMITTANCE ADJUSTMENT

KESTORES

IN EFFECT AND IN PRACTICE. THE AWFUL WRONG OF 19301

IT WILL SOLVE THE

LOCAL PASS-Book

Jalon for the

BANKING DIFF! - CULT

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