ANOTHER PROTEST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 April 1922, Page 5

ANOTHER PROTEST.

WELLINGTON, April 12. At to-day's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce it was reported that the following resolution of the committee had been forwarded to the Government : ' "With, respect to the recent decision of the Post and Telegraph .Officers' Association, this chamber is strongly opposed to any section of civil servants linking up with any organisation or union of a public character, be it either employers or employees. It is recognised that civil servants are in a totally different category from ordinary employees of pri- * vate employers, as the service, ordinary trades unions, is subsidised by the State through various superannuation funds, and the service possesses . the means of redress, through, the medium of the balloWbox. for any griev- ; ance against their employers, the State'- 1 Administration.''

In moving that the action Nof the committee be approved, the president (Mr. A. L. Hunt) said that in acknowledging the receipt of the resolution, the Postmaster-G_eneral had stated lhat he would com,tre*i]^Tate with the chamber when .pufrj^-^etion was deemed necessary./ It was obvious, he said, from ipie remarks made by Mr. Massey to a deputation that morning, that the Government intended to stand or fairby - its decision to oppose affiliation with the Alliance, of labour. It was dear $iat the majority'of people throughput the length and breadth of the country were oppose^ to the affiliation. Personally, he beliexed the officers realised they had made a big mistake, and they were now willing to draw out as best they could. The council approved the committee's action in forwarding the resolution. , ';