RAILWAY GRIEVANCES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 23 October 1912, Page 8

RAILWAY GRIEVANCES.

THE CLASSIFICATION BILL

SY TKLEGEAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION

DUNEDIN, Oct. 22

A meeting of the local branch of the New Zealand Railway Officers' Institute was'held to-night to consider the Government's proposals in connection with the Classification Amending Bill. A resolution was carried as follows: "That this meeting draws attention to the iniquitous proposals to still further increase the salaries of the chief clerk (by £200), the chief accountant (by £50) and the stores manager (by £50), while Jailing to bring the salaries of lowerpaid members into line with the Post and Telegraph scale, as recommended by the 1911 Parliamentary Committee." Resolutions were also carried deploring the facf that the Government had failed to keep its promise to place railway officers on the same footing a-s regards pay, etc., as other departments, urging uiembprs of Parliament to oppose the amending Classification Act so far as the first division was concerned until various new proposals detrimental to the officer?, were removed, and until the railway officers had an opportunity of considering the Act and suggesting necessary amendments, and bringing under the notice of the Minister the promise made by Mr J. A. Millar, when a Minister, to place the Lake Wnkatipu officer in the first division in the first amending Bill introduced.