PREMIUM BONUS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1926, Page 3

PREMIUM BONUS

DEPARTMENTAL REPLY.

WELLINGTON, October 7. The published comment by the A.S.R.S. on the Railway Department’s proposals for the introduction into the service at a later date of a premiumbonus system, was replied to by the Superintendent of Workshops (Mr. E. T. Spidy) : “Nobody need fear,” said Mr. Spidy, ‘that the .Railway Department is doing any ‘stunt’ work in introducing the premium-bonus system into the workshops. The Department does not intend to rush into any system, because the very conditions that make for efficiency are not yet provided in the existing workshops. The Railway Department is putting all its cards on the table, and is explaining the system in all its details, month by ■month, in its magazine.” He appreciated the fact that there were features in premium work that were, not understood by the men. He did not see how it could be otherwise, as very few of the men had had any practical experience of what other countries had achieved in chat direction. He asked the men to withhold their judgment until the system was fully explained. ' “Is it intended to introduce it in the present shops?” Mr. Spidy was asked. • “The present shops.” replied the Superintendent, “do not lend themselves to get the best results from the system, and not until the conditions are rectified is it intended to proceed. The system will stand the closest scrutiny, and I am satisfied that eventually the men will come to appreciate the fail- dealing that is the keynote of the Department in connexion with all phases of the work of reorganisation.”