P. AND T. ASSOCIATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 August 1925, Page 9

P. AND T. ASSOCIATION.

AND ALLIANCE OF LABOUR

POSITION EXPLAINED

(BY TELEGRAPH PH EES ASSOCIATION WELLINGTON, Aug. 5

In a statement to-day the secretary of the P. and T. Association stated that it appeared to the delegates l of the conference that the press has misunderstood the resolution which the conference passed yesterday on the subject of the Alliance of Labour. The delegates have taken up as their paramount duty the task of protecting the rights of members as citizens of New Zealand. The delegates know that the members of the association will be obedient to the exercise of all constitional authority, but where an embargo is imposed against doing what is an abosolutelv lawful thing, as was done hv the Government in the matter of the'P. and T. Association’s affiliation with the Alliance of Labour, and that embargo is autocratic and pot constitutional, the delegates, as guardians of the rights of the membership, considered it their bounden duty to protest. When this unlawful embargo against the affiliation has been withdrawn the delegates have decided to resubmit the question of affiliation with the Alliance of Labour to a second postal ballot. There is, therefore, absolutely no justification for the alarmist editorials which so far have appeared.