CIVIL SERVANTS AND UNION.
FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S DECISION. By Telegraph—Press Association.— Paris, May 15. The Chamber of Deputies by 343 votes to 210 has passed a vote of confidence in M. Clemenceau's policy, in refusing to permit Civil servants to join trades unions. The above -decision was come■; to in connection with » recent movement among 1 teachers to form a trade union. M. Clemenceau at that time; introduced ■•; a Bill ,'■ in the OhamWr of Deputies permitting Uml servants to form associations, and en-' titling them to take kgal proceedings against officials guilty, of : arbitrary admin!stattve acts. Writing to : the teachers' Association, he said that beyond this lie 'i was impossible to go, because the Civil seer.' vant is a member of the:" hierarchy,'' and has privileges ; and possessed by. the ordinary worker. The salary of the Civil servant,'he* • said,- is fixed -by <; law, his employment'is- • steady, and his position not affected by economic crises. :; Civil servants would not be. permitted* to take concerted action-'to break /their contracts with the nation, :' as such a would thwart the normal.; activities of the national . sovereignty. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13490, 17 May 1907, Page 5
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