CASUAL WORKERS.
DISMISSAL FROM RAILWAYS. (PRXSS ASSOCIATION TELECSAJi.) AUCKLAND, July 2. The Newmarket branch of the A.S.R.S. expresses apprehension at the serving of dismissal notices on fifty men at Hillside, forty-five at Adding* ton, seventeen at Auckland, and thirty at Palmerston North, and the compilation of a list of a further fifty at Otabuhu. The branch calls on the Minister to consider ''the huge salaries of officers or. the first three pages of the classification list," and contrasts the Department's attitude in maintaining, and even increasing, their salaries, also in retaining the services of all first division men, while 100 second division men are dismissed. A combined meeting of the A.S.R.S., the E.F.C.A., and the Tradesmen's Association of the Whangarei section of the New Zealand Railways resolved to send twelve suggestions to the Railways Commission in connexion with the reduction of costs The principal remits concern the overlapping of control in various sections of the Department and the increase of highly-paid positions created during tho last few years.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19970, 3 July 1930, Page 8
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