RAILWAY SERVANTS' GRIEVANCE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 982, 24 November 1910, Page 4

RAILWAY SERVANTS' GRIEVANCE.

. PROTEST AGAINST PROPOSED LEGISLATION. A protest on behalf of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants was presented .to the House of Representatives yesterday in the form of a petition by tho general secretary against the provisions of the Government Railways Amendment Bill (No. 2). ( Petitioner states that the effect of Clause 2 of tho Bill would be to validate regulations which the society aro advised would bo ultra vires. If tho provisions of Clauses 2, 7, 8, and 10 aro passed into law, petitioner says the rights of many hundreds of railway servants in the service of the Government will be seriously affected and prejudiced, and valuable rights which tho society is advised that the railway servants possess at present will be taken away without tho railway servants having tho opportunity to be heard iti protest. The petition protests against legislation of such a serious character introduced in the dying hours of tho session, and against any attempt being made to pass snch legislation without giving the railway servants an opportunity of being heard. It is asked that the Housa refuse to pass tho Bill, or, at all ovonts, Clauses 2, 7, B,'and 10, and that tho society should be given an opportunity to be heard in opposition to the Bill before tho Railway Committee or some other special committee.