DRIVERS DEMANDS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13754, 5 February 1919, Page 5

DRIVERS DEMANDS

CRITICAL POSITION.

{By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday.

The New Zealand Drivers' Federation is affiliated to the Transport Workers' Advisory Board, and in view of that fact a special meeting of the executive committee of the Canterbury Drivers' Union was held, and the secretary was inajjfj-acted to send the following tele.graWto Mr Parlane, the secretary of -the New Zealand Drivers' Federation: ""Tho Canterbury Drivers' Union views with regret the action of employers of drivers in refusing to concede the reasonable demands of the Drivers-' Federation of £3 10s for a forty-eight-hour week, as anything else is totally inadequate to provide the necessaries of life ■with the present high cost of living, .and urges that the Transport Workers' «i3ory Board take such steps as it deem, advisable to secure justice :he drivers of the Dominion.''

Mr Hiram Hunter, secretary of the local Drivers 5 Union, to-day received the following telegram from Mr Davis, secretary of the Auckland Drivers' Union: "Men here demanding a stop-work meeting, and are likely to take drastic -action. Will strive to hold them; the position is very serious; something must be done quickly.' •* Mr Hunter replied: "Wire received; meeting of Transport Advisory Board to-day; strongly urge men to restrain -themselves pending decision of tho board; joint action is essential in whatever is decided upon.-'-'