SHUNTING ACCIDENTS
A.S.R.S. REPRESENTATION AT.
INQUIRY.
-■ f^. ;M-J-.Mack,- general- ; secretary of the Amalgamated Society of .Eailway Servants,-stated to-day in .reply to -a question _that. his .organisation would not be'-sahsfied with, an'ordinary- departmental investigation into shunting accidents. It should not consist wholly'of experts who are shunters only by obser-ya.tion,!'-he declared. ' 'It should bo open^ ;to: the Press' so . that; the public may realise the ; difficulties, responsibilities and risks, run "by;; shunters. The sbciety should have the opportunity of appointing their.own representative." Mr Mnoladded that onl9th June his Society w t ott to tho Minister of: Railways asking that an independent tribunal be set up to to into'the question of the cause of shuiitinV accidente; that - tho order of " reference should be sufficiently wide to embrace^ all aspects .of ;shunting;work; and that it _should sit in the main centres to ob-twn-.evidence from; men actually engaged in shunting work.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 151, 30 June 1925, Page 7
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146SHUNTING ACCIDENTS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 151, 30 June 1925, Page 7
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