"INIQUITOUS SYSTEM OF CHEESEPARING."
RAILWAY SERVANTS AND THE STATE. "It has nlua)A been tbn aim of the executive to a\oid friction and bo reasonable in it* requests'' *aid tho president of tho Amalgamated Society of Railuny Servant* (Air. W. A. Veilch), in m nddrc«a recently to tho Wanganui bianch, "but mutter* havo reached such a Herioux condition now that we nould bo betraying our own mates if we did nut mo «-\*ry constitutional means to stop the iniquitous >>.stem of clicesopariiiK which, if it 1- allowed to continue, will very mxmi land us back in tho unonviabln position «<• occupied twonty jears ago, when tin* survicu conditions were a disgrace to ci\ ilisntion. We am not going to call a t-triko or anything incon«i*tcn* with our duty to the BrnU> which employs v«, hut wo must and Mill u«h every legitimate means to prevent the utter destruction of the soci«t>'n work done during tho last fifteen or twenty years. Oin> section of the Government service gets redress by means of n strike. We will k-o what tan bo done b\ . constitutional mraii^, but I liojio it \n iff not bo thought that tho position i» not scriou« because wr» ha\e not broken the law and attempted to injure the public sorvictr of New Zealand.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 4
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