Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party' [‎235r] (469/642)

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Accountant
£70 to £515 * w * «
Senior Accountant
£B5 to £110 « » * •
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7h« problonc of dAfforwatiiu ratoa of wages bcuaod
on nattonality for oisUar icoiSc arcquir^^ig »iialU,r q^ ifioatton®
is not new* It exists ©yarywhcreo The British soldi.ara
rtri»<fated the higher rates of pay of the Anerloana} the Indla^Mi
eK^loyect at Bahrain aak for parity tilth the *:&£<$ eajaa»j the
Aa^.txn <• tactile vorkere receife l^wer eage xT*tea than the Lancashire
cwtton wcrtcer*| "^a Southern toserlcane are iraatad differently
frcaa those of the Worths Stanctend* of livXttgg tmining, habit*
asrfi cue tons eaxy no widely that parity for al l nationalities Is
aa^oeaifcle of achlercaeent. let, where thay wCihlag in
does prwcladty, it is xander*tand£ible that ihoee weiring
leas thii;a others, for whatever reason, should want to 'nave ■ere*
Tha Britlch machinist, fbr eriBapl«i s regards the w rate for the
a* that paid to the American* not that the Anerloen
ahould coao down to hie ratc^ Hi a natural Irritation is
magnified at a place like Bahrala where, apart fr<«a the
differential wage rates,, the Aasericfsna and the British receive
equal treatment as regards practically all other oenditlone of
sap loyaant, e., g« free feeding:, club facllitioap ^Osja^^dation $
renti allowance and ocsta of good# at the cicass Is ea.ri&t<, But
he ooxrvenlently overlooks the ooetparable x’attjsa of the Americ^ne
in the Dttited states and himself in the TTnlted. KlngioiR and
the difference In costs of living a??& general atandarde. This
la particularly the case of the ^.rr'ied saen, whose families
aro not with than, and have to bo supported frotu their wages
at Bahrain* There la no simple annwer to the probleK 9
1 ,*i8H®®ted to the (general Manager that osie <8olutio,n ^ould be
to ra^ a basic "rate for the joV to all, irrespective of
nationality, and add to this a niitianalitry allc?/^ce according
to the ^asying condltdoxie In the oountriets of origin, but I
agreed with Mm that evec tide wr/old not rmove the rtsason for
the oritlolm because the total smoluments « and that is the
only factor taken Into account by worker « would not be
different, from what they am now, Tenwaally, I think matters
should e>s 1 ^ft as they ore at pj^c^iento There will always b©
a few grumblers and, as will be seen from the statistic* quo tad
in para« H«, it is only in a very few o&ses that Americano
and British are anployed in the same occupations* A further
point 1© that if 9 by acme ingenious method, as appearmce of
parity between the Amerloans and British was discovered, the
other nationals now receiving lover rates would claim
that thsy were entitled to higher rat®*.
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