RAILWAY SHUNTERS.
A GRIEVANCE. BT TELE3RAPH—-PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, September ?. A meeting of railway shunters was held yesterday 1o endeavour to obtain amelioration of the conditions of that branch of the service. wtTR made regarding overtime and the employment of acting shunters. It was stated that the Classification Ac 4- . provided a minimum wage of 8s 6d per day, but that the officers had been made third grade, and that of nineteen mes shunting on the Auckland lines only one was clashed as a shunter. It was resolved to hold a further meeting to draw up a statement, to he forwarded to the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, for presentation to Parliament.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9189, 8 September 1908, Page 5
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111RAILWAY SHUNTERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9189, 8 September 1908, Page 5
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