POST AND TELEGRAPH TROUBLE

Evening Star, Issue 17958, 3 May 1922, Page 8

POST AND TELEGRAPH TROUBLE

EXISTING- GRIEVANCES SHOULD BE ~ " REMEDIED. SUGGESTIONS BY 'THE WELFARE LEAGUE. (Contributed by the League.) 'tho- Welfare League has maintained throughout that affiliation of the lost and Telegraph Officers’ Association with Dio Alliance of Labor would bo against Uio public interest.. Wo still stand to that

position. At the same time we irant it clcarlv understood that in our opinion tho Post ‘and Telegraph officers should have what are legitimate grievances property hoard and remedied as fully as possible. In reply to (ho large deputation which waited upon him on the 12th iiist. Mr Massev said: “We want a s.atisfactoiy Public Service, and wo know to got that wo must have a satisfied Public Service. That has liecn our -aim.” Now. from investigations made, tho Jr ague is convinced that at present the Posted Service is by no means a satisfied service, .arid that, is not satisfactory. -Statements of grievances have been supplied to us very recently which impress us with the necessity oi im i va.rt ia 1. if not. judicial, examination, and tho finding of remedies, if these statements are correct. Wo nsv.-v have believed that over 4,000 postal officer.? deliberately voted for endorsing the Alliance of Labor syndicalist objective. Our opinion is that the great majority of these voted a-s they did out of a feeling of resentment against the Administration - and a mistaken idea that such was the only way in which they eould have their grievances dealt with. It i? because we consider that is a wrong way and one that cannot help the employees out of their trouble that we oppose this affiliation. While we, aro satisfied that the, public in general is absolutely determined to insist on keeping our Public Service free from outside sectional influences, wo aro also equally satisfied that tho public will insist on ‘remedying any “bona, fide” grievances which exist in tho service, and ; this was voiced by Air Carr at the recent i deputation, when ho said; “I feel sure that in asking for tho remedying of any 1 wrong? tho Post and Telegraph officeis J would have the backing of tho whole com- ' mimity.” _ , Recent communications to tho Press in- . dicate that special pleading and specious arguments .aro still relied upon by tho supporters of tho Alliance of Labor, but 1 we think that matters have now gone be- i yond the stage of academic discussion. < As thing? stand now tho only proper mb- j jeet to discuss is to get at- the root of I things and find- a solution. 1 The opinion wo have formed from an . impartial study of tho position is that — (n.) Genuine, grievances exist in the ser- - vice.

(b) These grievances, and the belief ly the Post and Telegraph officers that they were net being properly dealt with, logo (her with the propaganda circulated by certain extremists in, their ranks, i.au.-ed the members of the Post and iMeg’aph Association to vote aa they did. If the above (a) and (b) correctly sum up the position, we say tliat the remedy is simple, and wo advocate a full ami impartial inquiry, and believe that the services of two or three able and ’mpartial men would be gladly given for such a purpose.