THE RAILWAY SERVICE
PROTESTS AGAINST DISMISSALS [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, December 17. About 200 members of tlie Railway Tradesmen’s Association held a meeting at the Addington workshops to-day, when a resolution was passed protesting against the hardships being inflicted by the retrenchment of long-term casual workers, and asking the Government to reconsider tlnTr position. The resolution also expressed “ alarm and disgust ” at the economies directed at the lower paid men without any proportionate sacrifice among the highest paid officers of the service. Letters were read from the general secretary, of the organisation in Wellington, in which ho stated that Air Coates had agreed to a rationing system initiated to avoid the discharging of the men now under notice, and also those to receive notice between now and March 31.' Rationing, had not yet been accepted by the men, but the general secretary recommended it as tiio only humanitarian course in the circumstances. He will address the men at Addington on Saturday', explaining the proposal. In one of his letters the secretary stated that the Railways Board was opposed to rationing.
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Evening Star, Issue 20979, 18 December 1931, Page 3
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181THE RAILWAY SERVICE Evening Star, Issue 20979, 18 December 1931, Page 3
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