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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 110, 5 November 1918, Page 4

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QUESTION OF OVERTIME AND PAY. (Bt TELE6KIFB.—SPECIAL TO 181 POST.) MASTERTON, This Day. At a largely attended meeting of the Masterton branch of the New Zealand Engineers, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association, the following motion* were unanimously passed : " We, the members of the Masterton branch of the New Zealand Engineers, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association do herewith protest against having to work the same number of hours for night duty as men in outside employment work during daylight, and without any extra remuneration, and we do herewith appeal to the Government to give favourable consideration to pur appeal for the hours of work to be reduced to six during certain specified houis for the same rate of pay as i» now in existence; or, if this is not possible under present war conditions, for the Government to establish a penal rate of pay for all such hours worked during such specified hours of night duty. That the Government, having failed to adopt the favourable recommendation of the Parliamentary Railway Committee to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to allow us the use of the machinery ! of this Act to Temedy our grievances amicably, we urge the executive to take a ballot of all members of the association as to whether they are satisfied with the oap-in-hand policy that lias to be adopted at present to get grievances remedied, or whether they are prepared to adopt strong measures to remedy the same. If the i executive does not agree by 20th November, 1918, to take this ballot we call upon the executive to resign, and that another executive pledged to take this ballot be elected."