MEETING CALLED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 74, 25 September 1944, Page 6

MEETING CALLED

WAGE NEGOTIATIONS

P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, September *i traffic over a great part of Sit* ™th J slan. d wiH be dislocated next Thursday if action proposed in L^ eS°K Utioil passed fey the CanterwL bra, n oh., of the Amalgamated bociety of Railway Servants today is put into effect. r

a J he. branch ne*d a special meeting attended by more than 400 members to discuss the wages,schedules which nave been the subject of .negotiation ■JnS^h 11 th- e Railw*ys department and the union. The dissatisfaction of the branch with the conduct of these negotiations by the national execu+l V o e f °i f i the union was expressed in the following resolution"That we request, that all negotiations be broken off in regard to any wages schedules: that the executive be recalled from Wellington; that the executive be issued with a further set of instructions; that any further proposals be submitted to branches .before finalising; that this branch calls a branch stop-work meeting during the working hours of next Thursday at 7.15 a.m. to 9 a.m. Every member of the branch must attend': As many of the day's biggest passenger trains come into the period i -proposed for the stop-work meeting < the dislocation resulting from it will be serious. Among the trains affected will be the 7.25 waterside workers' train to Lyttelton; workers' trains and oif • ?°" th , express which leaves Chnstchureh at 8.35. . - The decisions of the branch were communicated in a statement by Mr A. L. Grant, secretary, who said that an amendment that the stop-work meeting should* be held over pending the decision of the Railway Wages Tnbunal was defeated by-a majority of 10 to one. The resolution was carried by a similar majority.