NO INJUSTICE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18571, 22 December 1925, Page 9

NO INJUSTICE.

•'■■ '■ ♦ RAILWAY CASUALS' PAY. "The men are casuals," said Mr H. Chapman, District Traffic Manager, when a representative of "The Press" enquired yesterday whether there was another side to the story that the Railway Department had" done something unjustifiable, by deducting payment for the half-holi-day on election day from the wages of the goods shed staff. He said that men employed as casuals were never paid for work they did not do. The deduction should have been made on the previous pay-sheets, but was inadvertently overlooked, and the adjustment was made last week. There was no truth in the statement that the deduction had been made at socalled "penal" rates in the case of a large number, or that the majority of the jwm on Friday were deducted four hours at overtime rates. Only a few of the men had bee-n paid overtime rates for the time in question—as a matter of fact, there were about eight. The deductions were mostly quite small and ranged from about 2s 9d to 6s 6d, with a faw in excess of t n p latter amount. "There was no injustice about it," concluded Mr Chapman,