"FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE"

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 142, 16 June 1923, Page 11

"FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE"

RAILWAY SERVANTS' PETITION

CREATION OF PERMANENT BOARD

The petition of the Amalgamated Society of Hallway Servants, asking that a permanent board be set up to decide questions relating to wages and" conditions, and any matters aft'ectinc the members of the Railway Service, was presented to Parliament yesterday by Mr. H. E. Holland (Buller), Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party. The society asks that the board shall consist of an independent chairman, two or more representatives of the railway nianacement. and an equal number representing the members of the Second Division of the Railway Service. "This request is made in view of the difficulties which have from time to time arisen as between outselves and the Railway Department," states the petition, "and knowine that any matters in dispute between us when represented to the Minißter-in-Ohaige, must, under existing conditions, be referred baok to the General Manager, umiion whose reconmieridations the Minister really acts." This method, from the point of view of the A.S.R.S.. is considered to be very unsatisfactory indeed, and tends to create industrial unrest, by reason of the fact that there is no other tribunal to which the members of the Railway Service can appeal. If a permanent board were set ut>. the society maintains that it would make for industrial peace and greater efficiency, and be generally in the interest of the public welfare.