ATTITUDE OF OFFICERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18690, 22 April 1924, Page 8

ATTITUDE OF OFFICERS.

NO PRESENT QUARREL. NEGOTIATIONS INCOMPLETE. [BY. TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Monday. When interviewed to-night Mr. R. C. Morgan, general secretary of the New Zealand Railway Officers' Institute, said he was reluctant to express any opinion regarding the deadlock that had apparently been readied in connection with the negotiations between the A.S.R.S. and the Government. At the moment the members of the organisation of which he was secretary were only indirectly involved. Representatives of the institute had interviewed the Minister for Railways on March 26 in connection with salary improvements desired by members, but the negotiations had not been completed. Therefore the institute had no quarrel with the Government. At the same time, said Mr. Morgan, it had to.bo recognised that members of the institute belonged to the same service as the A.S.R.S., and that the common good of the whole staff of the Railway Department had to be taken into consideration. In other words, said Mr. Morgan, it was not possible for members of the institute to undertake duties outside Ifhose /vdinarSy performed by them, if this meant that such action would practically amount to their acting as strike-breakers. frive Minister for Railways and the Genera! Manager of Railways had been advised that evening of the attitude taken up by the governing body of the institute and by members generally*