RAILWAY GRIEVANCES.
A REFERENCE TO STATE MINERS' STRIKE. • "It has always been the aim of the execntivo to avoid friction and be reasonable in' its'requests," said 'the president of tho Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (Sir. W. A. Veitch), in an address recently to tho Wanganui branch, "but matters have-reached such, a serious condition now that wo would be betraying our own mates if we did not use every constitutional means to stop the iniquitous system ,of cheeseparing which, if it is allowed to continue, will very soon land us back in the unenviable position we occupied twenty years ago, when the.6ervice conditions were a dis- : grace to civilisation. Wo aro not going to call a strike or anything inconsistent with our • duty to the State which employs us, but wo must and-will use every legitimate means to prevent tho utter destruction > of the society's work done during the last fifteen or twenty years. One section of the .-Government service gets redress by means of a strike. We will see what can be done by constitutional means, but I' hope it will not be thought that the position is not serious because we have not-broken the law and attempted to injure the public service of New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 790, 13 April 1910, Page 5
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207RAILWAY GRIEVANCES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 790, 13 April 1910, Page 5
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