A.S.R.S. PROTESTS OVER WAGES RISE
CHRISTCHURCH, December 10 (P.A.). —The convening of the biennial conference of the national union immediately, to canalise discontent about the amount of the wage increase granted by the Railways Industrial Tribunal, and to organise for uniformity in the union’s aims, was requested today by the Canterbury Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, at the biggest meeting of railway men ever held in Christchurch.
The branch will request the conference to instruct all its members to adhere rigidly to the 40-hour week, and to organise a general stop-work meeting of all members one day in January. It will also be asked to withdraw the union from the jurisdiction of the tribunal, so that negotiations can be made directly with the department, and the Government. A large meeting of members of the A.S.R.S. at Palmerston North recommended to the national executive that strike action be taken over the pay issue, and asked the national executive, to ascertain the views of other branches with the view of taking national action. • Resolutions protesting against the tribunal’s decision were also passed at New Plymouth, Wanganui, Timaru and Wellington meetings.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1950, Page 6
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