THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIV, Issue 10290, 1 November 1909, Page 4

THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, November 1. The Otago branch of the Amalgamated Railway Servants are averse to anv amendment of the Arbitration Act or any other Railway Act in the direction of extending official recognition to any other railway labor organisation than the Officers' Institute and the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.

Greymouth, November 1. The local branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants passed the following resolution : —"That tliis meetins protests against altering the clause referring to "our Society in the Conciliation ani.l Arbitration Act, as such action would be to the detriment of tire Society and railway men generally." Wanganui, November 1. In connection with the dispute, between the two bodies in the second division of the railway service, the local branch of the A.S.R.S. passed a resolution oil Saturday night considering the formation of another society uncalled for, and detrimental to the welfare of railway men; also protesting enphatically against an alteration in the Arbitration Act as it affects railway men. The local branch of the Drivers', Firemen', and Cleaners' Association passed a resolution strongly condemning what it. terms the "dog-in-manger" resolutions passed by the A.S.R.S., that body not being representative of the locomotive men, and claiming that 80 to 90 per cent; of the - latter are in the Association. They justify the action to obtain separate recognition, and stand firm to their own council as the only one in which they have confidence.