LOCOMOTIVE HANDS
PROTEST AGAINST LONG HOURS. By Telegraph—Press Association. ■ Christchurch, March 10. The following resolution was carried at a meeting of the Locomotive Engineers, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association :~ "Tkat we strongly protest against tho excessively long hours our members are called upon to work. Often wo start work in tho early hours of the morning, returning homo kto in tho evening, after completing a run which runs into sixteen to eighteen hours, without any timo for rest or to partake of a hot meal. This compares very unfavourably with the traffic branch, which arranges for guards on suck trains to be relieved 01 their return journey. We also view with concern and disgust the treatment meted out to one of our returned boys; who, owing to being incapacitated owing to wounds received while on ootive service, is now offered a position as labourer. This.is not consistent with the promise that men who were wounded and unable to' reoceupy their old positions would receive positions equivalent to the ones they previously held."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 142, 11 March 1919, Page 4
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171LOCOMOTIVE HANDS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 142, 11 March 1919, Page 4
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