RAIL WORKERS’ CLAIMS
♦ ALLEGED DISCONTENT IN SERVICE
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 26. A suggestion that the railwaymen's organisation was trying to establish a case for a general increase in wages throughout the industry was denied by the assistant-general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (Mr J S. Berry) when he was questioned to-day on his submissions before the Railway Industrial Tribunal. , The assessor for the Railways Department (Mr N. L. Stevenson) asked Mr Berry about a statement by him that there was discontent, even resentment, among railway workers. That was the information possessed by his union, replied Mr Berry. He would say that the feeling was general and that a big majority of the workers believed that a wage increase was necessary to place them on an equal footing with other workers. His union was presenting the case for its own membership, added Mr. Eerrv. There was nothing in his submissions about a general increase, but he admitted that in making his case he had touched on Dominion-wide economics.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25713, 27 January 1949, Page 6
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