RAILWAY MEN’S GRIEVANCE.
NON-PAYMENT OF BONUS. DRASTIC ACTION THREATENED. CHRISTCHURCH. January 15. __ The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has decided to take a ballot on the question of striking in the event of the non-payment to members of the society of tlie cost ot living bonus recently granted unions by the Arbitration Court. Ballot papers were issued yesterday to the Canterbury members, and are returnable next Saturday. WELLINGTON, January 15. With reference to the Press Association telegram from Christchurch regarding the railway servants taking a ballot on the question of striking in the event of the non-payment of the cost of living bonus recently granted by the Arbitration Court, an official states that the Prime Minister has announced that he would give the men another Wages Board Commission to go into the question of wages only. Tho commission would consist oi three representatives of tho A.S.R.S. and three representatives of the Railway Department, with an independent chairman. The members are asked to vote not on a straight-out strike, but as to whether they will support tho executive in any action it may take.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 36
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183RAILWAY MEN’S GRIEVANCE. Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 36
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