THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 194, 15 August 1907, Page 5

THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS OF X || CONDITIONS.

(By Telefi^apU.—Parliamentary , Beporter.)

f WEUjINGTON, this day.

The conditions in certain branches of the railway service were recently considered by'a meeting of twenty-five members of tae House. With a view to improvement; a series of resolutions have been carried, and these will be submitted to the Minister by a deputation. The following recommendation wa,a made !regaiding; wages:—■ . . .-

Crbssingffuid bridge keepers to receive -r/ per, day aijdreut free where homes are provided, .and in all other cases 8/ per day;, junior labourers in traffic and maintenance branches, on attaining 21 years of age, ;tp receive a man's pay; casual r labourers, in goods coalmen to be paid '"overTime, at thjiiratc of time and a-q.uarter for all .work performed before eight a.m.' and. after live iun:7 and time and a-lialf on Sundays, Christmas Day, New Tear's Day, ■Good Friday, ■' and other statutory holidays, and to be £Iyen privilege tickets, provided they nave {worked on tne average 24 tours per week for, the 12 months'previous to the date ofVapplication; cleaners to reeeiye a minimum.of 4/6 per day (Note. —Better provision to"be made for cleaners' stores);brakesmen.vto.be allowed standing time.in the same Sianner as guards and enginedrivers; brlogemen to be allowed to rise :to' a higher. EJade. and rate of pay; gangers to be paid 9/ jjer day; railmakers to have provision mads on the D 3 list for a leading hand; turners and trimmers to be placed in sub-Class i, grades 1 and 2, of the schedules to the Classification Act, and to have ; provision initde for a leading hand; wood-' working' machinists to receive a minimum , of 10/ per flay, sjnd to be placed in a" class ■by themselyee on the D 3 list; smiths'* rer ceivefromS/6 (minimum) to 11/; shops' en--ginemen to.iave a 4S-hour week; shunters to lie \resraflea, in order to place a larger proportion ; ? f them in the first and second grades- to receive a minimum of in/ -n '«uf na srade 'and aminimum of _10/ in the first grade; firemen to' receive a minimum o£, B/ ln the second d and a . tUe first -radf a TBL minimum *»- f 8/ In tKe third graae, a minimum of 8/6 In the second frlte' S:«™ : «* in Ye flret fr to the tiol 10 be recommendoSier reS, Veniment for an increase. BupfrlnnuinS^A^rS^ 6 - ° S f ° U ° W: to nermit thi ,f ct to be '"Denfled so as th P to', Wldow of a member dying on to dSd beto» elVe toe payments is it advances I^' SOlns on tne that the rntde In 1905 f y to the low « paid- men ment of provlded for h ? an amendSen are l^f™ 0 * Act - where should reclrv e Pe^, c f d and , r^ they their suspe&W^T s- - for } he P erlod ol second divta o ~ n^ si . cU -P a y mdmtwre of the placed on the •nmw?^ s 1 c o£ casnals be able; that-tg LW- "t when fonnd suitto anomaliS liT?^ s attention be called Boilermakers aw° sms al l° w ances (Note.— engine-drivftg _^ y from home receive 6/,: 557 carpenteg iome ied^lc examining length t home receive 4/); .partmenfstitimß. tv. be done ln tfl e Dedecision be-iflhVi : t * tne A PPeal Board's against distoig',} In aspect of appeals promotion, iaaa A on the of known the: dL3 at the del ay in making brought ns of tae boar «l °c for of the Minister placed on D3'i|i+ • ns_car men *o be there are toa :: < j£jzj h ? t * n all cases where flag the be made Jo