INDIRECTLY INVOLVED.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 95, 22 April 1924, Page 7

INDIRECTLY INVOLVED.

THE -OFFICERS' IWSXITUTE. XOT STRIKE BREAKERS. (By Telegraph.—Prees Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. When interviewed to-night Mr. R. C. Morgan, general secretary of the New Zealand Railway Officers' institute, said he was reluctant to express any opinion regarding the deadlock that had apparently been reached in connection with the negotiations between the A.S.R.S. and the .Government. At the moment the members of the organisation of which he was secretary were only indirectly involved. Representatives of the institute had interviewed the Minister of Railways on March 26 in connection with salary improvements desired by' members, but the negotiations had not' been completed. Therefore the institute had no quarrel with the Government. At the same time, said Mr. Morgan, it had to be recognised that members of the institute belonged to the same ser- ' 'vice as the A.S.R.S., and that the common good of the whole staff of the Rail- . way Department had to be taken into consideration. In other words, said Mr. Morgan, it was not possible for members of the institute to undertake duties outside those ordinarily performed by .them if this meant that such action would practically amount to their acting as . strike-breakers. The Minister for Railways and the General -Manager of Railways had been advised that evening of the attitude been taken up the governing body of the institute and by members generally.