RAILWAYSMEN'S GRIEVANGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5343, 2 December 1919, Page 6

RAILWAYSMEN'S GRIEVANGES.

Press Association Telegram. DUNEDIN, Dec. 1

The. Otago branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants resolved to call on the Government to relieve the pressure of the high cost of commodities it is imposing on members of the second division of railways, by granting the request of the executive for an increase of 2s per day. They also consider the time has arrived when the rank and file of the service should have a voice in its management and control. The Dunedin branch of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Officers' Association resolved: "That this section, enters an <mphatie protest against the Government in not at, once paying the war bonus undoubtedly promised by »n Joseph Ward, and to referring the matter to outside jurisdiction, seeing that it. has been admitted by prominent members of the Cabinet that the piomise was given. In regard to the minute of Cabinet, meeting, which is being risen in the attempt to avoid payment ana which states that a bonus will not be paid if the officers receive increases, we desire to point out that bad reclassification not taken ulacp. the majority oi officers would have received increments of salarv. and also that a large majoritv of oeffiers did not receive such increments as should bring their salaiy to the maximum to which the last war bonus was uaid. namely £220- ,