PASSIVE RESISTANCE.
(Special to "Standard.") WELLINGTON, Nov. 7. Among the low people who have set theriiselvea to place difficulties in tin? way of tlu> Recruiting Department are certain high-placed railway bfheers. The details ol the long-drawn quarrel between tlio Railway Department and the Defence Department arc not public property, hut the known facts arc serious enough. The Railway Department resisted as long as it could the demand that it should part with some ol its balloted First Division men. Then it consented to let a few hundred go, after over 1500 had been drawn, but insisted first on a .severe curtailment of railway services. The services were curtailed, but the Defence Department has not yet got, all the railway men who were to be released. The Railway Department .says that- the Defence Department is to blame for not taking them. But the Defence Department has found obstacles in its way all the time, and the Railway Department is certainly not making any active effort to help. Its attitude is rather that ol passive resistance. The recruiting authorities are not slow to take men who are within their reach, as the business people of New Zealand are well aware.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 8 November 1917, Page 7
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