LABOUR TROUBLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13745, 7 September 1908, Page 2

LABOUR TROUBLES.

AUCKLAND, Sept. 7.

A meet ins of railway shunters was held here yesterday to endeavour to obtain an amelioration of conditions for that branch of the service. Complaints were made regarding overtime and the employment' ot acting-shunters. It was stated that the Classification Act provided that a minimum wage of 8s 6d per day should be paid, but the officers had made a third grade, and of the nineteen men shunting on the Auckland lines only one was classed as a shunter. It was decided to hold a further meeting to draw up a statement to be forwarded to the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants for presentation to Parliament.