THE PREMIUM BONUS.

Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 13

THE PREMIUM BONUS.

Sir, —Your Friday night’s issue says that the following resolution was carried unanimously at Hillside Workshops yesterday That this meeting protests against any form of the premium bonus system being introduced in the railway workshops. This meeting consisting in reality of a few dozen men was called by the A.S.R.S. after an invitation to the N Z.R.T.A. to collaborate has been declined Your readers may draw their cwn conclusions on being informed that the latter society is mostly made up by the men that count as far as the Workshops are concerned. Many of tho men concerned dn arranging tho niass meeting are well known exponents of fthe “Government stroke.” At the meeting it was pointed out by the president of the local branch of N.Z.R.T.A. that that body’s policy was that, as a large number of their members were in favour of the premium bonus, they would be quite satisfied for the issue to be decided by a referendum of employees. If Air Spidq, Mr Sterling, and the Railway Department choose to bo dictated to by a few tired individuals they will soon become the laughing stock, of the men who believe in a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay.—l am, etc., J.L.