RAILWAY GRIEVANCES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 133, 23 October 1912, Page 5

RAILWAY GRIEVANCES.

THE CLASSIFICATION ACT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Durtedin, Last Night. A meeting of the local branch of the New Zealand Railway Officers' Institute was held to-night to consider the Government's proposals in connection with the Classification Amending 'Bill- A resolution was carried as follows: "That this meeting draws attention to the iniquitous proposals to still further increase the salaries of the chief clerk (by £200), the chief accountant (by £ao), and the stores manager (by £SO), while failing to bring the salaries of lower-paid members into line with the Post and Telegraph scale, as recommended by the 1011 Parliamentary Committee." Resolutions were also carried deploring the fact that the Government had failed to keep its promise to place railway officers on the. same footing as regards pay, etc., as other departments, urging members of Parliament to oppose the Amending Classification Act so far as the first division was concerned until various new proposals detrimental to the officers were removed, and until the. railway officers had an opportunity of considering the Act and suggesting, necessary amendments, and bringing under the notice of the Minister the promise made by the Hon J. A. Millai\ when a Minister, to place the Lake Wakatipu officers in the first division in the first amending LHI introduced.