CIVIL SERVANTS AND UNIONISM.
The question whether Civil servants should be. allowed to take part in trade union movements cropped up in the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon, when Sir F. Whitaker said he had for years been of opinion that the Civil Service was the hardest worked and poorest paid of any Civil Service in the world. He saw nothing objectionable in tho report of the meeting of Civil servants held at Christchurch on the 25th ulfc. Hon. Mr Shrimski thought it highly objectionable that in the present crisis Civil eervants should band themselves together in much the same way as Trade Unions were. Hon. Mr Whitmore, on she contrary, expressed the opinion that Civil servants were perfectly justified in taking, steps to protect themselves. Civil servants for years bad had obloquy cast upon thorn, and were right in venting , their grievances as they were doing now. Several other members of the Council ppoke in similar terms.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 215, 11 September 1890, Page 5
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