HUTT WORKSHOPS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22956, 11 August 1936, Page 10

HUTT WORKSHOPS

ALLEGATION OF PIN-PRICKING DEPUTATION TO GENERAL MANAGER (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 10; As the result of dissatisfaction with the general working conditions at the Hutt Railway Workshops a deputation waited on the general manager of railways (Mr G. H. Mackley) with the request that in co-operation with the unions the Government should take action to stop the pin-pricking methods employed by the management of the Hutt shops. Mb Mackley promised that the representations of the deputation would receive consideration. MR MACKLEY'S INTERVENTION RESULT ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 10. Mr Mackley, in an interview regarding the allegations\of victimisation of trade union officials and pinpricking methods employed by the management of the shops, said:— "I could find no evidence of pinpricking. I believe the men themselves would agree that there was no such thing as pin-pricking in the management of the shops. I had discussions with representatives of the men, and these discussions were entirely satisfactory to the men and to the management." A meeting of the combined committees of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and Railway Tradesmen's Association was held at Lower Hutt to-day, when a motion was carried unanimously expressing appreciation of the prompt and able manner in which the general manager had dealt with the workshops trouble.