RAILWAYMEN

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 June 1924, Page 7

RAILWAYMEN

BOARD OF. ENQUIRY

REPORT BY JULY 31

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, June 18. The Board of Enquiry set up by the Government to enquire into the rates of pay and conditions of work for members of the second division of the railway service has been constituted as follows; Messrs Justice Frazer, W. Scott and H. Hunter (members of the Arbitration Court), J. Mason (first assistant general manager of railways), and M. J. Mack (general secretary to the Amalgamated Society of Raiiway Servants). Mr Justice Frazer is appointed chairman, and the board is empowered to conduct the enquiry at such times and places at it thinks fit, reporting to the Minister of Railways not later than July 31. ! PAYMENT FOR, OVERTIME. CHANGE! AGAINST THE MEN. WELLINGTON, June 13. The railwaymen have received a. surprise since the working week of fortyeight hours has been reverted to. Under the conditions which obtained when tne old forty-four hour week was in force before the strike, the men were paid overtime for the time worked in excess of eight hours on any particular day, and, in addition to this extra payment on daily rate, they were also paid overtime if it iso happened that the week’s work ran into more than forty-four hours work. This double payment of overtime on the daily j and weekly computation of hours has now ceased, for railwaymen have discovered that, although they have worked for more than eight hours on a. particular day, but yet have not exceded forty-eight hours for the week, they have not received any overtime. The department, however, is apparently continuing to pay the special rate for night work between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. The fact that ordinary overtime is not now paid until forty-eight hours have been worked is interpreted by the railwaymen as an indication that by going on strike they have lost the eight-hour clay.