WORKERS' DEMANDS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1919, Page 5

WORKERS' DEMANDS.

' RAILWAY AND POSTAL WANTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Dunedin, Dec. ). The Otago brancli of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants passed a resolution calling on the Government to relieve the pressure the high cost of commodities is imposing on members of the second division of the railway service by granting the request of the executive for an increase of 2s per dnv. The branch also considers that the time has arrived when the Tank and file of the service should have a voice in its management and control. The Dunedin branch of the New Zealand Po3t and Telegraph Officers' Association passed a resolution: "That this section enters an emphatic protest against Government action in not at once paying the war bonus undoubtedly promised by Sir Joseph Ward, and to referring the matter to outside adjudication, seeing it is admitted by prominent members of Cabinet that the promise -was given. With regard to the minute of Cabinet, which is being used in the nttempt to avoid payment and which states that the bonus will not' be paid if the officers receive increases, we desire to point out that had reclassification not taken place the majority of the officers would have received increments of salary, and also that a large majority of the officers did not receive such increments as should bring their salary to the maximum to which the last war bonus was paid, namely £330."