THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19824, 16 December 1919, Page 8

THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

MEN VERY DISSATISFIED. [Per Press Association.] PALMERSTON N., December 15. The serioug unrest which exists in the r.-uhray service in this district is exemplified by a series of resolutions passed by the local branch of the A.S.R.S. tol ja'- one is as follows: I that this branch ask the general seI cretary what steps, if any, are being j taken by the executive council to *enj force our demands for a. living wage for i our members and their dependents. We I wish the executive to understand that 1 our demands are urgent, and that we are prepared to take steps, however drastic, to obtain relief from the conditions now existing. If the Department do not immediately drop the go-slow policy in connection with the increase of wages long overdue, there is much talk or a strike during the holidays." RAILWAY OFFICERS’ INSTITUTE. At a meeting of the North Canter- , hury Branch of the Railway Officers’ Institute, hold last night, the followmg resolution was carried unanimous- /• i , 1S branch is entirely dis- ■ with the 1919 D 3, owing to unfair treatment meted out to deserv- • ln ? members, and tlic salaries shown ! not being m accordance with the I to the Classification Act. ■: That absolutely fails to carry out the Genera] Manager’s promise to the institute that members would receive liberal treatment, and that the executive he wired to take immediate action.