OAMARU RESOLUTIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17458, 30 April 1920, Page 6

OAMARU RESOLUTIONS.

EMPHATIC PROTEST MADE. [l»T TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION, j OAMABU. Thursday. At a record and enthusiastic) meeting of the Oamaru branch of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association the following resolutions were unanimously carried :— That this section enters an emphatic protest against the methods employed 'by the Prime Minister and the PostmasterGeneral in avoiding the promised meeting with our executive, thereby driving us from legitimate means of redress. We further voice disgust at the manner is which Sir Joseph Ward's promised bonus has been flouted, and now place further action with the executive, ana pledge ourselves to support whatever action they decide to take." , " That this section des'res to place on record its sympathy with the railway men in the struggle for a living wage." " This section wishes to place on record the action of the Postmaster-General in ignoring correspondence from the secretary of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association, which compares unfavourably with the uniform courtesy received from the previous Postmaster-General." "That this section is of opinion that the amount of the bonus being paid to lower grade officers is totally inadequate in meet the increased cost of living, and that the action of the Government in alloeating an amount for bonuses to officers drawing £500. the same as to officers drawing half that amount or less, shows that the Government lacks sympathy with the lower paid workers of the service."