ADDINGTON INQUIRY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 417, 28 January 1909, Page 5

ADDINGTON INQUIRY.

MEETING OF "WORKSHOP EMPLOYEES. ' . V/l'V ■ (Br. TELEGRAPH— rRESS ASSOCIATION.)' : ' ./■■/: . , : Christchuroh, January 27. '.'>4 *. meeting ! j ofAddington//ltaihvay . Work-. . I -shop employees' was held-atrnoon on-Tues- , > tlav, at which .the- chairman' explained that no. reply had li?pn. received from tho tor for Railways'to the request made by th« .'employeos .for a public inquiry into the Gen-V ;/ oral 'Manager's charges; According to the:: reports - in the newspapers,: it wa3 evident' that something- of- the - sort was to take ■ the 'nioiv-would''be./;/;;: ■if /to', appear;!: :■ ■■ ogftheir..'behalf -before tHo/iiiquiryj and also!. .formed / a'" committee';, to .''assist"-;-' their /ropre?, sentative .in. preparing a defence to- the - charges.- A - motion 'was agreed to appointing Mr.'/E/ Cameron .as .the' employees'/re?, ! prosimtative- • before-..the' inquiry, and/ it .Was. //;/ decided •to sot up a committee,' consisting", / .of- two men from each .department, to /' be olected by the men m each department, toassisfc .Mr; Cainerop. ::/i' ///-/V'. ■''~,k At a meeting, of the committee, of the y 'v, Canterbury-; branched! .-.the /Amalgamated; • £.• ciety of Railway Servants held to-night, thov .O.j froiible .at .the' Addington ["Workshops : was' . '"/• considered, and tho following motions were. /-,' agreed to; —"(IV-That this -committee endorses the action : of tliei .Addington'. Work-;.;' shop employees in demanding' a public in- :' quiry. into' tho allegations, made by the Gen- 'v -;. : eral'Managor, and considers that one asses- : sor ''.should., bo appointed by. the employee's ' concerned., //($) That/the /committee",, ap-. . proves of 'tliG appointment of a representa- ' t-ivo to- watch tho - interests, of; ■ . the . cip-. ployees, and pledges itself on behalf of, tho members of the society to give every assistance, morally and financially." •/ (BY TELEGRAM!—SPECIAL COBBESrOSDKST.) ' . -.' fic/KPlymouth,- January 27. Speaking of the "Government siroko'l cir- ■ - culaiy the Hon, J. A., Millar stated to-daj ■ that, tho * heads pr., the/various j. department;.-' '/;. ! at ' Addington had all /'signed . a -declaratioi '-:':// that they had not '"given away" tho con ' tents of the General Managers,circular..