RAILWAYMANS' WAGES
By Telegraph—Prsss Association. Dunedin, November 11. Tho Dunedin Branch of the Engineers, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association unanimously decided to support tho Palmerston North Branch in Urging the Executive Council to take a secret ballot of all members of the association to decido .whether they preferred to adopt strong measures to get their grievances remedied. The meeting decided to protest againet the war bonus, and decided that a permanent substantial increase in wages, with time and a half for night work, and improved conditions alone would be considered satisfactory. !
At a fully-attended special meeting of the Wellington .branch of the N.Z. Looomotive Engineers', Firemen and. Cleaners' Association, held ton Sunday, it was unanimously decided: "That the . war-bonus-does not cover the demands which are being made by the locomotive men at prenent, and we demand that the Government shall {five earnest consideration to our claim for. improved conditions, and the wages! to be. increased to at loast the same percentage as the other workers in New Zealand railways enjoy, as compared with the wages paid to men in simitar work in Australia."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 41, 12 November 1918, Page 7
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182RAILWAYMANS' WAGES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 41, 12 November 1918, Page 7
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