THE ADDINGTON TROUBLE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGANUI, January 22. Mr W. A. Veitch, President of the Amalgamated Railway Servants, interviewed re the trouble at Addington, said that after twenty years' service in the Railway Department he could honestly say that the class of the new locomotives turned out by the New Zealand railwav workshops was superior both for efficiency and workmanship to the imported engines. As to tha proposed inquiry Mr Veicch said that i2 its scope were only wide enough, and if it were made independent by being conducted by gentlemen outside the Railway Department instead of by Department official?, the men would have nothing to fear as to the "Government stroke." He stated as a curious fact that everywhere throughout the Dominion he had come across ex-em-ployces of the Railway Department whose services werj eagerly sought by private employers because of the strenuous way they went about their work. In conclusion, Mr Veitch said that the Amalgamated Society had ample funds available for the defence of members.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3099, 23 January 1909, Page 4
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169THE ADDINGTON TROUBLE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3099, 23 January 1909, Page 4
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