RAILWAY SERVICE
MEN COMPLAINING
ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
A feeling of uneasiness is reported among second division railwaymen at the alleged failure of the Department to honour a promise to remedy certain anomalies in service conditions. Kegracling of the first division is now taking place, and the men consider that' adjustments in thsir conditions should have been made .before attention was given to this matter. Conferences of their representatives and the Minister, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, and departmental heads is stated to have proved unsuccessful, but Mr., Sullivan has now agreed to a round table conference with executive members of the Tradesmen's Association1, the Engine Drivers', Firemen, and Cleaners' Association, " and the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.
The main grievances of the second division appear to be. a difference in. the annual leave and sick leave granted to them as compared with the clerical branches, and restricted opportunities for promotion to offices which are open to the .first division. . . . '.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 11
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165RAILWAY SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 11
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