RAILWAYMEN DISSATISFIED

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12017, 6 March 1920, Page 8

RAILWAYMEN DISSATISFIED

Second Edition.

Per Press Association. nfiristohurch, March 6. A “stop work” meeting of about 500 employees in the railway workshops at Addington passed resolutions, “That on account of the cost of living increasing since the Railway Wages Board sat we advise our Executive to demand at least 5s a day increase, and pledge ourselves to support them in obtaining the demand, also that the Executive be urged to meet at once and decide upon an immediate line of action..” “That this meeting after reading in the newspapers ,the Hon Mr Coates’ partial genial of the wanton destruction of military garments, still enter emphatic protest, and we further respectfully request him to -fulfil his contract to ns, as he had payments for articles six«* weeks in advance. We further ask employees to refuse to accept return of their money until a final reply is received ;from the Hon Mr Coates.”