RAILWAY GRIEVANCES

Taihape Daily Times, 30 June 1919, Page 4

RAILWAY GRIEVANCES

;BAeK STANDING TIME WANTED. i PALMERSTON NZ, this day. At :1 special meeting yester{la.y the iA.S.R.S. mcsolutioned I'eques‘t.ingx-the. limil-mdiate payment of guard standing time from April last, which was pro!lil_iSCd; also drawing the affention of jthe Minister for Justice to the salteintent, of Mr Field, M.P.. for Otaki. at [Palmerston Show, requesting the §Minister to stat”-e'whe'ther ’che__Govcrnment discriminates between the re- ’ marks of a. labour leader and a farmer I ELI’. I [anon-:sl's FROM CHRISTCHURCH 5 CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The Canierbury branch of the New Zealand Engineers Firemen and Cleaners’ Association resolved_to protest against the action of the Railway Department dispensing with the services of a. number of Casuals, some of whom have large families to support; also at the action of ‘the department in retaining’ men who shol'lld".l‘eti're on superannuation. This action ig un-‘ fair to the men who ‘haw’? ietnrned‘ from active service. '