THE PROPOSAL OPPOSED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, This Day.
The suggestion of the Minister of Railways that all railway employees should contribute a week's pay in order to prevent dismissals from the railway workshops is viewed iv an unfavourable light in the sei'vico at Fraukton Junction. If such a course were a remedy, and not a relief, the service as a whoie would doubtless be only too willing and agree to the suggestion. The consensus of opinion is that while the railwaymen were eager to sec an end of unemployment, and willing to do their share towards its solution, they considered the Minister's suggestion tantamount to a compulsory levy on railwaymen. Why should they bo urged to this course and" not other sections of the community?
It is pointed out that workers in the railway workshops are quite separate from the railway service. Many have been engaged in special work which apparently is now completed. "Why," says the .bYankton men, "should tho regular service men. who are not well paid and live from hand to mouth, be asked to contribute to this section of unemployed?"
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 10
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185THE PROPOSAL OPPOSED Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 10
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