NEW RAILWAY SOCIETY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 657, 6 November 1909, Page 7

NEW RAILWAY SOCIETY.

'■':■ ;PLEA- FpE RECOGNITION;' : ? ;,.'.■: : . V Over twenty-members of ;tho ■ Housed, were nresent at an' informal.,; meeting ■ yesterday, wteD/ddogatwi- from the new'Eailway EngineDrivers 1 ' arid Cleaners* Society urged, the claims of'their organisation to official . ' Mr Browi outlined the steps that lad been undertaken io : . comection with, tho: formation cFto new society. He mentioned that.thos were promised recognition.when their.members reached 1000,: and now they, held a member-, shin of'lloo.'.lt-, was., later, held by to aXrities that' under, to Act the new: society 'could not be •recognised. ■ ■ :; '■;■. •■■..■ .-, '■~;; PRepl ring to a question,; Mr." Brown said that . thf woufd not.Sbject* to other;secbons rf;U» serfice forming.,.independent; •.societies. The, low society,!ho'continued ■ wished. ;to come tinder the' Arbitration Act. ~ ; '.'!,-'•" ' Mr! Kennedy said that hegwners: at cleaning were'not .paid so much 'a* was the case twenty rears ago. He next emphasised the fact that lhe T ULotive;Department wa= tion Of the 'service that had not secured an ndvance.in pay in recent years.- ■. .. ■■■■':■■-: •-. : -W Anderson: It '.take* balf. an hour to get the engine into, to. shed at .riights. . ~;.,_ Mr. Kennedy: Ted. "••■ ~.'- •'■<..' ..■■ ": ry,.: Mr Bdick! Don't you Bet ovorllime? : ■- - -that ;that;was to the- wages of engine-' driver., and cleaners were lower, in New ZeaS than in any other part of the world. The ' : Ir/raw rate of pay'irt America.was 18s,, the average we _.o i p j Emitted, however, '■ foV^«r & day. In .America' to drivwsTwere paid so many .cents, per,.mile. • IfcfficiriFMW that nolhins woufd induce • members of' the riew'.. society., to return, to the • SS socictv; « their 'Wages were. lMteased to ' £1 p« day th*y would not do 1 . ih«T had representation on th* A.5.R.5... their i • interest* had been neglected, , The present • movement was only of ajngger i nwreiotnt, whieh. would .result..in other sect,' HomTlt«. railiiay forming societies indepen- ' '•■ <l DUrbr to A couL' of desultory; disoussion at to Vnd bf to meeting, a railway man re-em-t nhasUed the ; fadt that begihriera at eleamng >. St te.« per day 20 years .ago under a Con--5 ifflrvative 'Qevermnenti- but aow received only M&l&r day under the great Liberal party. a Air M: SincetlwXiW party has .been v 'ih>«er' wages .generally have. increased .from ° •-■The' railwayman!. Six shillings -20 ) : w 4 better than Bs. to-day. iWd ■ Mr. .Ell ttink a- "that :6s; was hot-a. -living wage? :^;,.;: a '.'.'-•' ; .-. '■.:■.■■ ,',■,.•■■.;'" \y , : : The raUwayman: ;My .father, reared .me ot '. to''hihV^':-'v/'."-' - : .>";■:-v.■''-\^;';;'-: 1 :'^: