UNREST IN RAILWAY SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 70, 16 December 1919, Page 11

UNREST IN RAILWAY SERVICE

DRASTIC STEPS THREATENED. By Telegraph—Frees Association. Palmerston North, December 15. I'ho serious unrest in the railway service in this district is exemplified by a series of resolutions passed by Iho local iranch of the A.S.R.S. to-night A typical 1110 follows: "That this branch ask the (eneral secretary what steps, if any, aro ii'inif taken by the executive council to •'iil'orco our demands for a living wago dir our members and their dependants. Wo wish the executive to understand hat our demands are urgent and necesiai'y, and that we aro prepared to take ■■tcps, however drastic, to ohtam relief from tho conditions now existing, if the Department do not immediately drop tho 'go-slow' policy in connection with tho •iiercaso in our wages, long overdue." There is much talk of n strike during tho uilidays. Christchurch, December 15. At a meeting of the North Canterbury iirnnch of Iho Railway Officers' Institute, Iho following lesolutions wore earned unanimously: "That this branch is entirely dissatisfied with the 1919 D 3 owing to the unfair treatment meted nut to deserving members and the salaries shown not being hi accordance with tho schedule to the Classification Act, that the DS absolutely fails to curry out tho General Manager's promise to the institute that members would rcceivo liberal treatment, and that Iho executive bo tolcgrnphod to take immediate action."