RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 113, 9 November 1910, Page 3

RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.

HAWERA, Bth November. Afc a meeting of the A.S.R.S. last night a resolution was passed to the effect that the Hawera branch views with alarm the recognition of ' the , Enginedrivers', Firemen's, and Cleaners' Association, as fully 80 per cent of tbe rail.waymen are against it. CHRISTCHURCH, Bth November. At a largely-attended meeting of railway drivers, firemen, and cleaners, held at the engine shed to-day, the following resolutions were carried unanimously :—: — That there is absolutely no chance of the members of the Enginedrivers', Firemen's and Cleaners' Association breaking up their own union and going back to the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants; that this meeting indignantly protests again the un-union dog-in-the-manger tactics of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants m endeavouring to influence members of Parliament to coerce the enginedrivers, firemen, and cleaners into a union which is so bitterly opposed to them. ALLEGED DESERTION. AUCKLAND, Bth November. When the Talime arrived from Suva yesterday, Detective Cox arrested a man named Alfred Phillips on a charge of having unlawfully deserted his wife at Auckland. Phillips left for Suva by the last outward boat en route for San .Francisco, but telegraphic information regarding him had reached Suva before he got there, and he'was headed off and sent back .by the Talune. It is alleged that he deserted his wife, leaving her destitute. She was under the impression that she, too, was going to San Francisco, but hsr husband, it is alleged, told hor ihat the steamer was leaving at 6 o'clock, whereas in fact it left earlier in the day, and when she went down to the wharf to get on board she found that both her ship and her husband had gone. Accused, who had some £100 in his pockets when arrested, was remanded until Friday.