A DRIVER'S REDUCTION
MAY LEAD TO A STRIKE li - - r UNLEBB HE 18 REINSTATED. THREAT BY E.F.C.A. By Telegraph.—Press Association. DUNEDIN, Monday. Punishment imposed on drivers has cr.used trouble among the members of 'lhe locomotive branch of the railway Bcrvlce and a strike is threatened. It was charged against a driver that he started a train for Port Chalmers when the starting signal had not been given by the sema,-*«ore in the station yard; that no question of endangering the public was involved in the starting of the train; moreover the guard of the had given a starting whistle to the (.'.river. As the result of an official inquiry It is stated that the stationrnaster at Port Chalmers was severely reprimanded, a signalman and a shunter each fined £i, and the guard exonerated. In the case cf the driver the decision of the Punishments Board was that he should be redi eed for six months to the rank of fireman. A special meeting yesterday of the local branch of the E.F.C.A. passed a resolution "That unless our executive gets Driver Barclay reinstated as .i driver, we intend in a body to cease work' at midnight on Wednesday as a protest against the drastic punishment dealt out to triis member." The general secretary of the E.F.C.A., the Minister of Railways and the General Manager have been advised.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14585, 7 February 1921, Page 5
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