PROTEST MEETING
NO LEAVE ON ANZAC DAY. By Telegraph—Press Association.' Dunedin, April '25. At Hillside Workshops to-day a mass meeting of men was held as a result of ■ the Railway Department not releasing returned men to take part in the Anzac celebrations. The men had to ask for leave, and this_ : was granted; ■ but on 'the understanding.:that pay would' be docked for the 1 time lost. Hie meeting ''resolyed'-'tKat'subsdriptioiis-''sßbuW'be .itakeh up to make up. the lost pay. It "also passed a .vote.'.of censure on the ; Government, for not granting' at least two hours'• leave to enable; the men to pay respect'to the: memory-of.'those •who-had sacrificed their lives at Gal- . lipoli.. ~ ■-~ v v ■ ■ .
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3063, 26 April 1917, Page 5
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