THAT PAY DAY AT ADDINGTON.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1122, 9 May 1911, Page 4

THAT PAY DAY AT ADDINGTON.

MEN TIRED OF THEIR RUSE. (By Teleeraph—Press Aseoclatlon.l Christchurch, May 8. The method of paying the fivo hundred employees at the Addiugton Railway. Workshops, which has been taken exception to by the men, was the subject of a; meeting at noon to-day in the workshop? ground, where about three hundred men assembled to devise means of overcoming the difficulty. Hitherto the men have signed the pay-sheet on Thursday, nndi have received their money on Friday, but they claim that this method of pavina five hundred men in about fifteen minutes does not allow them to check their and dissatisfaction has arisen because recently two men were short-paid, and received an unsympathetic reply' to theii protest that they should have examined their pay before leaving the pay window, Last Friday they made a passive protest by examining their pay as directed, but! tho process of paying out occupied an' hour and a half, and tho men now feel that some bettor method should be adopted. The following motion was carried unanimously;—" That (his meeting of workshops employees at Addiugton re spectfnlly'urges the General Manager to issue instructions that every man b9 handed his pay nt the time of his signing, the rrceipt for it."