RAILWAYMEN
PETITION" FROM RAILWAY/ TRADESMEN'S ASSOCIATION/.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent:)
WELLINGTON', This. Day. . The Railway Committee reported yesterday that it has no recommendation to make regarding the petitions for.official recognition of the New Zealand Railway Tradesmen's Association. The effect of the Committee's decision is that the Association remains- part of 'the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. , Mr T. Field stated that petitioners mentioned that one of the reasons for desiring to leave the they feared .that its policy "was calculated to involve them in a strike. • ••'-
Mir Veitch, a former president of the A.S;R.S., gave the statement, that the railway servants had. any tendency -to strike an emphatic denial.. It was-nofc the Raihvajyimen's intention "to adopt an extreme policy. Such a tiling would bring disaster on themselves.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 3 August 1916, Page 5
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