THE RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 476, 31 May 1890, Page 4

THE RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.

CIRCULAR FOR THE SOCIETY.

UNITED ACTION URGED.

The following circular was issued by the Railway Society bo all employees at Christchurch yesterday in connection with the circular issued by the Commissioners offering to give leave, pay, and reasonable travelling expenses to enable representatives chosen fiom tho employees to attend Wellington for the purpose of setting forth their grievances, the Executive Committee beg to draw attention to the following facts : —(1) That the Society is the proper medium through which all grievances should be ventilated; (2) that tho Executive Commilteehave already offered to send delegates to Wellington to meet the Commissioners, but the offer, so far, lias been entirely ignored ; (3) tho Commissioners steadfastly refused to recognise the Society, or deal with the executive on the questions of grievances and reform as submitted, but have tried by every means in their power to induce employees to act independently of the Society; tho executive would warn you against entertaining such a proposal. The only way to obtain redress for grievances, and successfully reform the existing rotten state of the service, is to act uniteHy, man bo man, shoulder to shoulder, through the Society, and never recede one iota from the position taken up. The Executive Committee must be recognised as the medium between the Commissioners and the employee?. Do nob bo deluded by the offers which look fair on the surfaco but arc veritable pitfalls of the most bottomless kind. — W. T. Edwards.”

LETTER FROM THE COMMISSIONERS.

OFFER TO PAY TRAVELLING EXPENSES OF EMPLOYEES.

Wellington, May 24.

The Railway Commissioners to-day wrote to the executive of the Railway Employees’ Society, expressing their willingness to receive a deputation from the Society to discuss the matters in dispute. They have also issued a circular to employees to the effect that they are prepared to give the necessary leave, and pay reasonable travelling expenses to the delegates from amongst themselves who visit Wellington to set forth their grievances.

The following telegram from Woffington appeared in this morning’s 41 Herald:” “ lb is reported that the Railway Commissioners intend curtailing railway traffic in Waikato, sending only one train weekly to each of the following places: Cambridge, Te Aroha, Te Awamufcu, and Lichfield.” Mr Grant, the Auckland district manager, distinctly contradicts this statement. No such arrangement has been intended, and it is most unlikely that anything of the sort will be resolved upon.