RAILWAY DISPUTES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 197, 15 May 1920, Page 7

RAILWAY DISPUTES

A.S.R.S. INQUIRY. | The inquiry by a spccial conciliatloa committee into the differences between ; the Railway Department and the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants was opened yesterday, Mr. (J. B. Bullock presiding. The order of reference of tho inquiry is as wide as it could possibly , bo made. The tribunal is directed to report as soon as ilossiblts on such matters affecting the rates of pay and conditions of work of the second division ' of tho railway service as may bo brought \ before the committee by tlie represents- • tives of tho A.S.R.S. Mr. Massey attended the opening of the meeting, and he is ; ready at hand should his assistance be at any point required by the committee. ! Tho proceedings of the committee arc ! being conducted in private, but it was ; reported at the conclusion of the sittings yesterday that the conference had pro- ' ceeded satisfactorily, and that it would be resumed to-day. j The Minister of Railways announced ' yesterday the names of the rcpreseoita- j tives of the Government on the com- i mittee to determine the 'E-.E.C.A.. dispute, j This dispute, is not to bo heard by a > committee similar in constitution to thnt ' for the A.S.R.S. dispute. Tho big society ' asked for, and • obtained, a committee I consisting of three representatives of tho' Department and three representatives of ( tlie society. The E.F.C.A. asked for a j committee consisting of outside business j men, not in any 'way connected with the j Government or the Department. They j nominated Messrs. AY. D. Hunt and J. S. : Dickson, M.P. The Government has j nominated, as representatives Messrs. j James Marchbanks, formerly of the ■ Manawatu Raihvav Company and now : engineer to the Wellington Harbour ; Board, and W. H. Millward. until recent- j ]y chairman of directors and managing' j director of the Gear .Meat Company. j