RAILWAYS DISMISSALS.
PROTEST AT WAN GANU I.
PERSONNEL OF COMMISSION,
[BY TELEGRAPH. —rRESS ASSOCIATION.] "WANGANUI, Monday.
Hie following resolution was carried unanimously at <1 meeting of employees of the Eastown railway workshops today:— /
"That this meeting views with concern and expresses its displeasure at the methods adopted by the Government, in appointing a commission to inquire into railway affairs on which no practical working railwayman is included, and in allowing the officers of the Railway Department, beforo the commission began its inquiry, to put on an already glutted labour market large numbers of casual railwaymen from the second division. "We respectfully request the Government, to stay the hands of the railway officers until the findings of the commission are known, so that if retrenchment is necessary it. can bo put into effect by beginning at the top, instead of at the bottom." /
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20604, 1 July 1930, Page 13
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