GUARDS’ UNION UNLIKELY
SECRETARY OF A.S.R.S. UNPERTURBED DENIAL OF REPORTS Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. Mr. Mcllvride, general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, states that newspaper reports that a guards’ union is to be formed as a result of a ballot of guards by the Auckland Guards’ Club is incorrect. Promoters of this sectional scheme have yet to discover whether it is possible to form a guards’ union, says Mr. Mcllvride, and then whether it would be possible to get official recognition from the Minister and Railway Board. There was no public effort by the A.S.R.S. to counteract the propaganda, and no independent scrutiny had been made of the ballot papers, yet the promoters had to admit that 245 guards, out of their selected list (461), showed indifference or opposition, either by voting or declining to return a ballot paper. “We have evidence.” he says, “that the great majority of guards are opposed to any new union, and there is very little possibility of its success.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 15
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168GUARDS’ UNION UNLIKELY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 15
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