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TROUBLE IN RAILWAY WORKSHOPS MEN DEMAND EXTRA MONEY [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, March 8., Trouble has arisen at the Hutt railway workshop regarding work on Sat- . urdays, and to-day only seven out of about 200 workers who should hav«t been present turned up for duty. An ex parte statement sAys that oxt ; Thursday a meeting of workers carried' a resolution as follows: “In accord--ance with the principle of the 40— hour week we workers of the Woburn, Railway Workshops again put forward! claims for payment for Saturday work) at time and a-half. Failing an ad-i justment of this anomaly we shall ini future decline all Saturday work.” , The statement says the resolution, / was carried with very few and was signed by representatives ow the Woburn A.S.R.S. and the Huttf R.T.A. It adds that a further meeting! yesterday endorsed the resolution. j It is understood that all the men will; report for duty on Monday, the stop-| page concerning Saturday work only,*
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Evening Star, Issue 23829, 8 March 1941, Page 14
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