RAILWAYMEN’S THREAT.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16081, 22 April 1924, Page 4

RAILWAYMEN’S THREAT.

Reading between. the lines, one is forced to the conclusion that the New Zealand railway service is overmanned. That would explain the reason why the A.S.R.S. members, although periously desiring more money, resolutely decline the obvious and offered means of earning it by working slightly longer hours. For in doing so they might demonstrate too plainly that there was not enough work to go round, and there might be a reduction in the staff. The management, hard pressed to make ends meet, is engaged in continuous conflict with its staff, which also declares its inability to make ends meet. The public, also struggling to make ends meet, has perforce to partially deprive itself of the use of a service it owns, and is corning to live in dread of having to be further taxed to preserve that service from bankruptcy. Surely in the interests of all three parties it is for the Government to make a move, and brace itself for the undoubted ordeal which doing its plain duty involves. And that duty is to abjure political palliatives and grudging grants, and go instead to the roof of the matter. —Dunedin Star.