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DISPUTE AT
ISLINGTON
Trouble Over
Transfers
The disputes committee
of the Trades and Labor
Council will meet at the
Trades Hall at 2.30 p.m. today
to consider a dispute which
arose yesterday over the alleged
displacement of storemen at the
Islington Railway Workshops.
The State secretary of the
Australian Railways Union (Mr.
A. A. Drummond) said yester
day that, after working tor the
Department of Munitions at
Islington during the war, three
men had now been transferred
to the railways and were super
seding storemen with many
times their experience. A great
deal of discontent had been
caused.
Mr. Drummond said that a
conference had been held yes
terday afternoon between the
Railways Commissioner (Mr. R.
H. Chapman) and union repre
sentatives, and Mr. Chapman
had refused to take any action
in the matter.
Mr. Chapman said last night
that a difference of opinion
existed between the ARU and
the Sheetmetal Workers' Union
on the matter and be had tried
to arrive at a solution acceptable
to both parties.
Unfortunately, the ARU would
not be satisfied unless the men
were transferred and demoted.
This he was not prepared to do.
He hoped that railwaymen
would not be led Into making
the matter a major issue.
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