P. AND T. AND THE ALLIANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 96, 24 April 1922, Page 7

P. AND T. AND THE ALLIANCE.

CONFERENCE WITH MINISTER.

MTTUB PROGRESS MADE,

EXECUTIVE TO MEET AGAIN.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, this day. An important conference was held in Hamilton on Sunday morning between the Postmaster-General and Messrs. J. H. McKenzie, president of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association, H. E. Combs, secretary, R. H. Brown, vicepresident, and L. G. McDonald, member of the executive, who came up from Wellington by the early morning train and left again for the South last night. The Press representatives were _ot admitted to the conference, which lasted about two hours, and at the conclusion both the Minister and the Association representatives declared that there was nothing to report, other than that the association executive will be called together in about ten days' time to discuss the whole situation."

MINISTERS' FIRM ATTITUDE.

THREAT OF DISMISSALS.

HAMILTON, this day. The Postmaster-General is understood io h_vc taken up a very firm attitude, and to have stated definitely there will be no affiliation of the postal services with the Alliance of Labour. He is also said to have given the delegates to understand that a limited time has been fixed b*y the Government for the Association to make up its mind on the matter, after which there will be wholesale dismissals of men whom the Department regard as disloyalists.' Speaking at the annual re-union of the Post and Telegraph . Officers' Association at Hamilton on Saturday night, Mt. J. A. Young, M.P., left no doubt as to the light in which he views the recent decision of the association to join the Alliance of Labour. He thought, he said, the association had made a great mistake, and he felt that many who had voted for affiliation with the Alliance did not fully understand what they were doing.

CONFERENCE ADJOURNMENT,

NO DECISION YET. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. No announcement Is yet available regarding the decision, or the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association executive in reference to the Government's refusal to allow the association to affiliate with the Alliance of Labour. The executive is still in session, but Mr. H. E. Combs (secretary of tie Association), in company with the president (Mr. McKenzie) left for Hamilton to meet" the Post-master-General. On their return the conference will resume. It is statethat the meeting at Hamilton is at the request, of the Minister.