RAILWAY SERVANTS
INCREASED WAGES DEMANDED. By TeleEraDh-Press Association. Dunedin, May 20. At a meeting , of Hie Otago branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway berrants, resolutions were passed endorsing the motion recently passed by the Timaru branch and demanding an increase or 2s. a day to meet the increased cost of living, and viewing with alann the action of the Government in not protecting tie workers from exploitation. The meeting also passed a motion emphatically protesting against the harshness of tho punishment inflicted on Flood, Langley, and Hunter in Christchurch recently, and stating that the fact that men who were prominent in the Labour movement were prosecuted while tho Mayor, who put the motion to the meeting, -was not prosecuted tended to shake faith in British justice.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 207, 21 May 1918, Page 4
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127RAILWAY SERVANTS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 207, 21 May 1918, Page 4
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