THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 120, 8 October 1912, Page 5

THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

DISSATISFACTION AT CONDITIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. A large and enthusiastic meeting of railway officers was held to-night to hear a report by the delegates who recently waited on the Minister of Railways with regard to the carrying out of the findings of the Railway Parliamentary Committee, which reported favorably on the petition of railway officers presented to Parliament last year.' A resolution was carried unanimously deploring the action of the Government in refusing to give full effect to the recommendations of the Railway Committee, and regarding such action as a distinct breach of faith, inasmuch as members of the Government and of the Reform Party generally gave a definite assurance that the recommendations would be carried out in their entirety; also deploring that while the Government was granting concessions in

various directions costing many thousands per annum, the claims of the railway officers were being ignored. Another resolution endorsed the action oi the executive in advising the Minister that the proposals made by him to the executive were so much below the finding of the Railway Committee and of the scale of salaries in the Public Service Act for other branches of the Government service, that they were totally inadequate, and expressed the opinion that the dissatisfaction in the fust division would be intensified by the attitude of the Minister. It was decided to urge the executive to continue to press for conditions of pay, leave, etc., equal to those in the Postal and Telegraph Department and other branches of the public service.