RAILWAY SERVANTS

Maoriland Worker, Volume 11, Issue 449, 15 October 1919, Page 3

RAILWAY SERVANTS

The usual monthly meeting "f tbe Auckland Branch of tho A.K.R.fc>. wa:. nold it tU> Social Hall en ; :T ; '- :ii; '"' ;1 ' ?ii. T:;, ; ■~ •;....:! ir-i oi 1 A.S.i: . ; - v-;':; ;• v. ~_,, 1.-.i! :-.;; lil'M, file Lliaitei" bo ,-<■-',-;■:<- -i :... '.';.-. '.'.al Transport AVcrk- ( .; .. ,'i,i\-'i.'';■-.• il.-ard for e'-otiHderatiou :-.i -!v.-; m.'.i, meeting. A report of. the latter body'- lust committee, mejetiug was read and received. The Aildingtou Branch wrote asking Auckland to support tb* following:— "That this branch of the A.S.R.S. strongly disapproves of any form of Conscription being foisted upou the people of this Dominion, and further, tliat in view of the precarious _tuto of tho public iinaiioe, a j,ub-tuuti_| reduction in the Defence L_penditure is an immediate and imperative necessity." At its Jnly meeting ft* Auckland Branch pasted a resolution cf a similar natur-. and it was decided with om« di:v-o-ti<.vl. to support that of Addington comrades. Me-sr.-r, T. McCready and P. Anderson wer.. elected ailditional delegates to the Lab-'r IJay celcbratien committee. Tbe A.S.IJ..S. is this year well represented on that body. Mr. T. Gla.-gow" has been appointed uandieopper, jMr. J. Elliot, secretary of tbe sjuTts committee, Air. .1. Ti_ard, result board steward, and Messrs. C. Daivsoii, G. Bonsi»n ai.d A. Boyce ar c members of various committees that aro working to make Labor Day a big success. T>ne two new delegates w ill doubtless be found among I those "doing their bit on "the day," | along with the aforementioned riiilwuy-' men. The secretary was instructed to write nnd congratulate Mr. Hampton, I'resij dent of the fir his c-aorts o>nj behalf of (he iniucr.-i, r I" li<_-. following resolution wa_ passed unanimou.ly and ordered to be sent to th:- Pi-ess lor publicaticu:— "Thai. (hi;-. Bvancn condemns the Govcrnmcnl for allf'Wiug the nrico <>'' ''" ; d to l«j raised duriug the past few • weeks." . This Avas sufficient to cause a subleader to appear it, on© of the dailies suggesting that the resolution had been forwarded to tho wrong address. It is cf course notfceableto the ti-ink ing person that profits—tho ever-sacred —must never be interfered with, unless of course it is to increase them, and in the cas c of decreased production, the price must always be raised to an extent I hat wi, l guarantee to he parasitical shareholders their usual dividcuil received when the output, is normal. The "Star" fails to point ou|. in what way raising the price of coal relieves the situation, us lar as the community ia concerned. "Industrial Tramp." who, i.3 not yet; a Red Fed, and conducts tho very respectable Trades and Labor Notes column in the "Star," writes, in his con" tributiou vi the 2.5 th September, "Seeing that the miners ar© paid at per ton. on the output, I hay ( .» not been able to understand why tho prico to e;On---uiriers should hav 0 been iucrca-cd. With a. decreased output tho miner has bceiv earning a correspondingly reduced wage, and the loss has been hip. I can understand the shortage in t.ho supply, but not, I ho need for such an increase* a:; 4 (j per tun." Tbe. following resolutions wore also passed:—"That a senior man, bo recognised in all the different; branches of -hop's work and allowed -onto extra lrcmuneration for the sam© when no leading hand is appointed." "That members of refreshment staff b e placed on .same footing as traffic men as regard rates of pay for night work, aud bo given an. opportunity of being placed on permanent list, aud classified on D'.\.'' "That this Branch requests the Exeoutivo Council to purchase a stock of standard boot.-> for railwaymcn."