DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 50, 23 October 1912, Page 5

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

RAILWAY GRIEVANCES (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, October 22. A meeting of the local branch of the Now Zealand Railway Officers’ Institute was bold to-night to consider the Government’s proposals in connection with the Classification Amending Bill. A resolution was carried as follows: —That this meeting draws attention to the iniquitous proposals tc still farther increase the salaries of the chief cleric (by £200), the chief accountant (by £SO), and the stores manager (by £SO), while failing to bring tno salaries of lower-paid members into line with the Post and Telegraph scale, as recommended by the 1911 Parliamentary Committee.” Resolutions were also carried deploring the fact that the Government had failed to keep its promise to place railway officers on the same footing as regards pay, etc., as other departments, urging members of Parliament to oppose the Amending Classification Act so far as the first division was concerned until various new proposals detrimental to the officers were removed, and until the railway officers had an opportunity of considering the Act ana suggesting necessary amendments, and oriugvig under the notice of the Minister the promise made by the Hon J. A. Millar, when a Minister, to place the Lake Wakatipu officers in hie first division in the first amending Bui introduced.