RAILWAY DINING-CAR EMPLOYEES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 May 1909, Page 10

RAILWAY DINING-CAR EMPLOYEES.

Sir,—Tho cooks and waiters employed on your Statfe railway dining-cars, and who are presumed to bo paid fortnightly, were paid but onco- last month (April). Seeing that thesb men ate. but casual hands, and liable to be. discharged at a moment's-notice, is it then a fair thing that the Government should have the: use of their, money? If those nloh are mot required,; then,. I say, put them | offj but if thoy are required ; and omployed, pay. them, and that promptly. And further, ;tho men on theso cars, leaving here at 7.20 a.m. for • New Plymouth, aro compelled to foi' 'their o\vn sleeping ftccommodation there;"! consider this.manifestly unfair)seeing that they aro in the employ of tho.State, and consequently entitled ,tO',tho same privileges a's'thoso enjoyed by anypivil. Servant, or spoort-fod Vrennor and Minister. Again, the Main Trunk train departs hence at; 11.45 a.mi for Ohakufle, oto., and there is no siich ; thing as-a convenience which tho dining car etnpTo>ce*.can'.-uso r At Ohakuno those,men havo a half-milo walk, through ins a rule) mrtd, wator,' slush, oto., and on arrival at tho. accommodation house, aro called upon to nav for thoir sleeping accommodation.—'l am, lynx.