STRONG AUCKLAND PROTEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 104, 1 May 1920, Page 12

STRONG AUCKLAND PROTEST.

GOVERNMENT DILLYDALLYING. STOP WORK MEETINGS THREATENED. At a full meeting of the committee of the Auckland branch of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association held yesterday, the. following resolution was carried : — "We consider the shelving of the war bonus, promised by Sir Joseph Ward, to be a. disgrace to any Government and an insult to the intelligence of the members of the post and telegraph service. We desire, that the Press be fully advised j despite frequent Tequcsts within I the last few months, no interview with • either the Prime Minister or the Post-master-General has been granted. The i lime is now opportune to press the [claims of the service, in conjunction with those of the railway men, that definite '[salaries, excluding bonuses, be fixed im•lmediately, such salaries to be hascd upon .the relation of the cost of living now !and that obtaining in 1011. In our ! opinion tlie Government itself is causing ' discontent by not fixing the salaries on a, fair basis, as it has made other employers do. and any strike which has been or will be the outcome of such dillydallying will be entirely warranted to impress on the Government the feelings of the men. We ask that the executive council be called together immediately, temporarily ignoring rule 17a (which provides that a month's notice shall be I given). Failing the consideration of our demands the executive instructs all branches to call stop-work meetings to consider what further action shall be taken."'