CLASSIFICATION

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 137, 6 December 1918, Page 5

CLASSIFICATION

10 TH« EDITOR. .'■.■■■■ Sir, —It is pleasing to note that you have taken exception to the: "sioppy:> legislation now '• being dealt with, by ■' the Hoose of Kepresentatives, and I see it | tt 'to. be supplemented by the Post and if etegraph' Bill, which I expect will-, be !'rushed through in a few hours. I should hket« warn you, Mr. Editor) that a Bill of this nature, whers it concerns* so many people, requires very careful .study and consideration., otherwise, instead of rewwdying the anomalies that exist, otbeia more numerous Will arise. Of coarse, we all know it is a "palliative" measure, but the public servants have had a (orej experience in Ihui respect, tor I have only to carry ihy mind back to 1911,' when Mr. Massey and his colleagne fit Herdmain told their hearers in the Town Hall how happy they would make the lot of the public servants. Among other things, every five years thews would bo * reclassificaiibn of ■ the Service. What has happened ? The five years lias been extended to seven yen?*. Miv Massey nays it is because 60 many men are ut the -"front," while Sir .'Joseph ra«i states it is a qnestion o^ fifnanct; ; Who is to be believed? £'se there ikA, proportionately, as many ia the Post and Telegraph- Department away? and yeta special Act can be provided for that branch pf, the Service.

* haVe no hesitation in aayins; that tie postponement, of the reclassification &. o tnost wnffiir ■ action,_ particnlarly wht-n. w« consider the Prime Minister's party fathered tbe Act, and I am surprioed that the members do not insist that faith is kept with the public servaivra of the Dp-minion. If- laws are lnado to be varied in such a manner, is it surprisinsc that such discontent reigns among the State employees?—l am, etc., RETIRED