THE RAILWAY SERVANTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 234, 8 February 1911, Page 5

THE RAILWAY SERVANTS

WILL .101N LABOR UNION'S. By Telegraph.—Press. Association. Wellington, Last Night. A conference of delegates of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, elected to appoint an executive council directly representing the four branches of the outdoor railway service, ended today with the appointment of the president and a new executive. Mr. W. A. Vcitch, of Wanganui, was unanimously re-elected president, a position he has held since the beginning of 1908, and the executive council was constituted as follows: —North Island: Locomotive department, W. T. Wilson (Palmerston North); maintenance, T. Churchouse (Cross CreeK); traffic, G. S. Frost (Auckland); workshops, K. Moore (Petone). Soiuh Island: Locomotive, F. Hutchins (Invercargill); maintenance, E. J. Dash (Timaru); traffic, T. Tull (Christchurch); workshops, R. Hampton (Addington). The president stated, in an interview, that the policy of the retiring executive had been fully endorsed by the conference. So far as affiliation with outside labor was concerned, tlje conference was unanimous that no good purpose could he served in the interests of railwaymen by further communication at present with the Minister of Railways regarding the railways. While they all recognised that in the past the Government had been sympathetic to railwaymen, they regretted very much that the recent reversal of that policy had forced them into the position that they were now in duty bound to find protection for their men. The conference had newly elected a council to immediately put itself in touch with existing labor organisations outside the Government service, with a view to coming to some satisfactory arrangement with the object of at least preserving that which had not yet been taken from them.