RAILWAYMEN'S GRIEVANCES

Nelson Evening Mail, 15 May 1917, Page 7

RAILWAYMEN'S GRIEVANCES

t UNHID P*MB J TAUMARiUXUI, May 14. At a well-attended meeting of the Enginemen, Firemen, anl .Cleaners' Association at Taumarunui, on 13th 'May, strong exception was taken by members to the action of the Railway l>epartment in taking a second' ballot of employees after they had already been balloted for under the Military Service Act, and consider men should) be called up in the order in which they were drawn under the Military .Service ballot. JTlie. following resolutions have 'been passed by the Wellington Branch of the Amalgamated 'Society of Railway Servants:—i(ll) "The Wellington Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants a, strong protest against the exempted railway men being, subjected to a Departmental Second /Ballot. 'vV"c .consider that the only fair and reasonable way is tor She -railway men who were drawn, in the First Ballot to go into camp ■first..- Tinder this I>epartmental scheme the Fifth 'Ballotin eh may ihave to go. to "camp before those, men who. were drawn in the First Ballot" ; (2) "That this meeting of the Wellington Branch of the A.S.f&.S. calls the attention of lOabinet to the .manner in which statements of an untrue nelfrure were placed 'befpr e the Court at Auckland in the. cases against the miners' officials, and also asks the Government to. order a. public enquiry into the circumstances connected! with the. cases."