RAILWAYMEN'S GRIEVANCES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 21 October 1918, Page 7

RAILWAYMEN'S GRIEVANCES.

WELLINGTON BRANCH RESOLUTIONS.

BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. WELLINGTON, Oct. 21. Ihe largest meeting of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Locomotive Firemen and Cleaners' Association ever held resolved: That this branch demands that the Government shall immediately give effect to our claims put forward for the last five years for increased wages and overtime for night duty between the hours ™?T, Pf?' d 6 ?••*• s branch <aH» E i / 1 Exe + cutlve C°uncil to immediately take steps to get these requests recognised and agreed to by the Government, and pledges itself to assist the Executive Council in any action it deems necessary to obtain these re. T? S-n The.branch also desires emphatically to protest against the working of so much overtime, which the the fact that the busy season is not in yet, as the long hours of work at irregular hours and at night are not conducive to good health