ANOTHER PROTEST
AGAINST RAILWAY DISMISSAL. RECOGNITION OF POSITION ASKED. . (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 17. About 200 members of the Railway Tradesmen's Association, held a meeting at Addington Workshops to-day, when a resolution was passed protesting against the hardships being inflicted by the retrenchment of longterm casual workers, and asking the Government to recognise their position. The resolution also expressed “alarm and disgust” about the economies directed at the lower-paid men without any proportionate sacrifices among the higlier-pakl officeVs of service. Letters were read from the General Secretary of the Organisation in Wellington, in which he stated that Mr Coates had agreed to a rationing system being initiated to avoid the discharging of men now under notice, and also those to receive notice between now and March 31st. Rationing has not been accepted by men, but the General Secretary recommended it, as being the only humanitarian course in the circumstances. He will address the men at Addington on Saturday explaining the proposal. In one of his letters the Secretary stated that the Railway Board are opposing the rationing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1931, Page 3
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180ANOTHER PROTEST Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1931, Page 3
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