RAILWAY SERVANTS' CONFERENCE.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13020, 8 February 1911, Page 4

RAILWAY SERVANTS' CONFERENCE.

[ UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Feb. 7

A confluence of delegates of tho Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants elected to appoint an Executive Council directly representing the four brandies of thr> outdoor railway service ended to-day with the appointment of the president- and new pxocuts\y. Mr W. A. Y-eiteh, of Wanganui, was unanimously re-elected president, a position ho has hold since the Infillninn of 10(J8; a:id the Executive Council was constituted as follows :—North Island Locomotive De-! partuient: Mr W. T. Wilson (Palmers ton North) ; •maintenance, Mr f. Chmrhhous? (Cross Crook); traffic,! Mr G. S. Frost (Auckland); workshops, Mr H. Moore (Petone). South Is;land: Locomotive department, Mr l.(\ Hutchins ('lnvereargill) ; maintenance, Mr E. J. Dash (Timarii); traffic, Mr J. .lull (Christehurch) ; workshops, Mr R. Hampton (Addington). Tlio president stated in an interview that the policy of the retiring; executive ha<l beau fully endorsed by the conference. So far as affiliation with outside labour was concerned the conference was unanimous that no good purpose could be served in tli? intorestn of railway rani by further communicating at present with tho Minister of Railways regardiiiig railways. 'Whita they all recognised that in the. past the Government had be-e.ii sympathetic, to railway men, they regretted very much that thn rccwit reversal of that policy had forced them into tho position that they were now in. Duty boiled thorn to find protection f"-r their m.e-n. The conference had unanimously »iven direction to the newly-okctod Council to immediately put itself i,n tovicli with the existing labour organisations outside the Government service with a view to coming to Rome satisfactory arrangement with the object of at least preening that which had not yet b:en taken from them.