RAILWAY SERVICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2737, 24 May 1924, Page 3

RAILWAY SERVICE.

TRIBUNAL TO ADJUDICATE.

Auckland, May 22 Of the four’ proposals made by the Government to the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants for a tribunal to adjudicate on its demands the society has chosen the second, that of members of the Arbitration Court with one representative, each from the department and the society. So stated the president of the A.S.K.S. (Mr M. Connolly). The society's representative added Mr Connolly, would be its secretary (Mr Mack). Mr. Connolly himself would appear as the men's advocate.

The alternative proposals submitted by the Government were: (1) The Arbitration Court as at present constituted to deal with the dispute; (2) the Arbitration Court with a representative from each side associated with it; (3) Parliament; (4) a Royal Commission to be set up within live months. Proposals 3 and 4 rejected, said \h- Connolly, because the society wanted its claims settled immediately. The acceptance of either a Commission or Parliament involved considerable delay. The society expected as soon as its acceptance bi proposal No. 2 was notified that the Government would at once set up phe tribunal. "As the Government made the oilier,” concluded Mr Connolly, "our acceptance of it may be taken as iinaiiy fixing the nature and personnel of the tribunal.”

•■ISUTHINU TO SAY.” Wellington, Last Night. Asked whether he could state when the tribunal to inquire into the raiiwaymen’s case would sit, the Minister of itailways (Hou. J. (i. Coates;, had nothing to say. He made the same answer when asked if he had any otliciai communication from the -Ueneral Secretary of the A.S.K.S. as to whether the society had acccpLed the Arbitration Court, with one representative from each side as a tribunal to hear the men's claims. Similar replies were given •by Mr J. Mack, secretary of the A.S.K.S. when approached. “There is nothing to add, and 1 have no comment to make,” was his rejoinder.