THE ADDINGTON WORKSHOPS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 29 January 1909, Page 3

THE ADDINGTON WORKSHOPS.

CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. '-■-■ In a lengthy, statement to a represen--7 tativc of ''The Press," on the Adding- : ton workshops, w employee- states that much of? the machinery-, is so obsolete that thetnwn^ are unable to compete "~ on equal > terms with the workers in out^de'-sKops fitted up with up-to-date appliance's and machinery. He aleo al--1m« that- there is an absence of system -and' states that the men will be satisfied with nothing but 7 g> publitf inquiry, with, a Magistrate or 7 a Supreme; Court Judge^as'one oi those "-- donstituting it. _ . 7To-day a telegram signed jointly by ;M«^:l«aurenson, Ell, Witty, Russell, 7. and. Davey,7_M.'P., was despatched to : .'.Mr:': J: -A. Millar, Minister .of Railways, ; 7 Bsking'^Mm: to make- the* inquiry into the charges against the employees at ■ Uie Addington Raihvay "Workshops as : public as possible so that the* people of the Dominion would be able to decide whether or not the charges were Srouadless. . v - , ' 'fivo following reply was received: — "R; inquiry at Addington. It is pro-pos£-_i to -held"* public inquiry, not a departmental-one. It will be held by persons' altogether oiitsido tho Railway Service; ahd will be open to tha press. I think you will agree that it cannot be more public than this, and when the details are published I think you will be satisfied. J. A. Millab."