Railways Dispute
Sir, —I see the railway employees’ union at Christchurch has decided to have stopwork meetings shortly to try to impress on the few people who now use the railway service (by inconveniencing them) that they have what they think is a grievance. I would term it a poorly-con-ceived effort by the union. In the South Island the railway service could well be terminated and passenger and goods traffic (what is left of it) taken over by road transport, which is giving a great service to the country. The useful railway employees could easily be absorbed in private employment where they would be employed full time and not have leisure to think out imaginary grievances. Furthermore, these men would then appreciate that their wages were not being taken from the working taxpayer.—Yours, etc., FED UP. April 11, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31343, 13 April 1967, Page 12
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