NO SYNDICALIST ACTION

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 6

NO SYNDICALIST ACTION

RAILWAY SERVANTS

OFFICIAL" STATEMENT.

':: The' following . brief, but important, statement was: made to a Post reporter ", to-day by Mr,..'.R.. Hampton,...President, of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants:—

"In -view of certain- statements that are'.appearing . in ."the-", newspaper-press-throughout the Dominion, and which have called forth certain editorial comments, I wish to state that no outside Labour organisation has suggested to the Amalgamated Society /of Railway Servants that they should join with them for the purpose of adopting syndicalist methods of organisation. "It seems to be imagined that the Bailway Servants wish to combine in order,, as it. were, to hold up tho general public at the point of the pistol. In any action we may take, either as a separate organisation, or in conjunction with ally other, bodies,' the public may. rest assured that no such action ■will be -taken; for our. own selfish ends, and nothing will be done or agreed to by us which is opposed to the welfare, of the general public.

"In return for this we expect only fair and sympathetic treatment at the hands of the Minister of Railways and the Department, and we hope that, if we'study the public interest, the public in return will see that we receive such treatment.

"It appears to me that if the editors of our papers would devote their attention to_ certain other combinations in this Dominion, which are adopting syndicalist methods and holding up the food-stuffs of the people, their time would be better employed than in setting up a bogey for the purpose of knocking it down."