THE RAILWAY SERVICE

Southland Times, Issue 18935, 23 September 1920, Page 5

THE RAILWAY SERVICE

LOCO, MEN'S DEMANDS. j A DEADLOCK. (Special !<■» the Times, i WELLINGTON. September 22. Somethin? like a deadlock has been reached in the dispute between the Railway Department and the locomotive branch of t'fce service (the Engineers’, Firemen'.-- and .. .tSancrs’ Association!. After the railway Strike in May las: sj-eritd tribunals were set up to consider the claim.' of the railway- ; m< n. The members of the traffic branch (the Amalgamated Society of Railway Ser- 1 vatit'i and the -T.-rical branch (the Hail- ! way Oilieers’ institute > accepted the reconi-: me;idarint;s of the tribunals that dealt with ‘ them ca.'fs, but the locomotive branch has ; not. accepted. A ballot of the members of | the bramdi r-'-i;]-.. t j-, :i large majority vot- : in (r agam't. P;e w-vol ae..-i- o! the terms pro- I U'.'-ed by t'e- inbm.a!. Since i.heu iht' 1 executive "i tie- K.E.C.A. has conferred ; will) the Mltd-ter of Railway- but no .-ettle- I meat ha.-’ m -m r--vde-d, and [t is renorted ' I»o-v that the locomotive men are threat- • ening another stoppage, i The rhi"f point in dispute relate-- to hours I of work. Trie locomotive men are demand- : ing a ■: t-h.our wren, rhis was- not a. part , of their original claim, anti the Department i is nor, prepared to make the concession, i which would have to be extended to the | other hranrhes of the railway service and ! to other Government departments. The 1 T<*int has ho-n dis-ussed wit-h the Minister i of Railways 'Mr M; is-seyi hut no ivttirm-gnf | hm- been reached. j