To the Editor of the "Nontut-Cuuna Dat News."
Sim,—Why should the recom ations of the Salaries Commi (1930) cause so much comment among business men? Can they not recognize the efficient service of our Municipal employees better than the work of those in banking, insurance, shipping and in business generally? And what do they see when they look out into our world to-day? Are they satisfied with the conditions here, and with what they know the future promises?
Fortunately, there are still many good people who can seo that the ity" opinion and the findings of the Sala Commission which sat in 1920 do not correspond with our experience of things as they are at) present. The foreign bankers' buying and selling rates of exchange, the shipping companies' freight and paseago: rates, and the insurance! companies' premiums are something abominable. The tailors' union raises prices, the butchers, the the shoemakers' unions raise theirs, id the Shanghai Property Owners' Association does likewise. As a matter of fact, the prices of commodities are' steadily and they seem to. have nearly reached their Alpine limits. Therefore, the present recommendations of the Salaries Commission an only afford a very small compensation and a very slight relief to our' Municipal employees, And what may one yet say about measles, mumps, whooping cough and chicken-poxt However, the Shanghai ratepay-23 today demand that the valu of cal ability and. training. given. by the best of Buropean institutions who tight well fi their places, but who from stress of circumstances fare working and are content to receive practically motive Day.
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