RAILWAY SERVANTS.
A SPLIT IN THE RANKS. ;,f ; [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.^ '■ ' Wellington, Monday. Something very like a bombshell is due * to burst under tho Amalgamated Society -, : '-,.• .° l Railway Servants in the course of a * Way or two, for it is rumoured that the |• ■ ' maintenance men, gangers, surfacemen, and " „' general labourers propose to secede from | , the society, and to form a separate and .' VSmaller union to look after their own ■< ■• affairs. Such, it is understood, was the decision arrived at by a meeting of surfacemen held on Saturday night. . There t are about 2000 men in this division of the ' ', r , v ice, and the loss of such a large body ;Will be a serious matter for the Amalga- „ mated Society of Railway Servants, "Weakened as it already is by tho secession ISa?^'^ locomotive men some years ago. &.<W' ' ■ ■ ' '■ ' *, -■■ • • .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14849, 28 November 1911, Page 7
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RAILWAY SERVANTS.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14849, 28 November 1911, Page 7
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