MISLEADING AND INCORRECT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 13 October 1941, Page 4

MISLEADING AND INCORRECT

STATEMENTS BV HILLSIDE WORKERS COMMENT BY GENERAL MANAGLR OF RAILWAYS Wellington. Oct. 11 The statement embodied in the Pie « Association message from Dunedin with reference to the resolution of the Hillside workers regarding the departmental attitude to employees in connection i with military and national service wa* the subject of comment by Mr E. Casey, (General Manager of Railways, who described the statements as misleading and incorrect. No action of any kind wa- taken by the Railways Department to hinder or prevent the tinsmith referred to freyn joining the armed force* nor was an appeal lodged. With reference to the married casual tinsmith referred to as having been dismissed, the position is that the Director of National Service requested this Department to make available for employment in a private firm the services of a tinsmith who was required there on more essential w’ork than he was carrying out at Hillside. Action was taken accordingly. The casual employee who had tha least service was selected and given a week's notice and asked to report to the National Service Department at Dunedin for the purpose of taking up further employment. No distinction is made between men in some calling in regard to appeals for military service merely because one is a casual and the other a permanent employee.—P.A.