LOCO. MEN'S DEMANDS.
THE 44-HOUR WEEK. ''SOMETHING WILL EITHER BEND OR BREAK." ft is stated that the official counting of the recent ballot of members of the New Zealand Locomotive Engineers, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association, taken for the acceptance or rejection of the Special Conciliation Comniis:,ionev's report, showed that the members rejected the Commission's finding. As a result, delegates have conferred with the Minister for Railways, and (in .«rr.'ingemtnt was arrived at but, according (heir journal, "'there lias bc»n a deadlock on a 44-hour week for the trninriinning men." "The continue-;, "if dh playing any responsibility at all. must give earnest consideration to our claims. Standardised wages and the adoption of the world's standard of promotion for locomotive men are also 311 a llors which must he seriously and intelligently gone into, or if 'not, then something will either bend or break. No self-sacrificing section of the community could tolerate the unfair manner in which our claims have been met."
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1920, Page 4
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160LOCO. MEN'S DEMANDS. Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1920, Page 4
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