STRIKERS AND SUPERANNUATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2727, 1 May 1924, Page 2

STRIKERS AND SUPERANNUATION.

THE question is being asked as to what effect the strike will have on the striker’s’ superannuation? In answer to this question, Mr Sterling assistant-manager of railways, informed a press representative at Wellington yesterday that the position was legally Unit the men had forfeited all right to the benefits under his provision. They now possessed only the right to receive hack what they had already paid into the fund. WJiile this was the position in which the Railwaynien found themselves as a result of the strike, it rested with the Government to say whether or not these provisions should he enforced. They might, or might not, be eventually modified, after negotiations with the men’s representatives. Mr Sterling added that the railwaynien who have been on strike have not received payment for the time they have been out, and they are not going to receive payment for it. The Department had no intention, he added, of paying tile men for the time during which they had refused duly. A eon temporary points out when the Post and Telegraph strike occurred iu the ’seventies there was no superannuation law in force, but when the act did come, the effect of that strike was put oil record and affected every striker in the vital mailer of length of service. Broken service does not count to qualify —an official must have continuous service.