STATE SERVANTS
RIGHT TO FORM UNIONS DEFINED BY FRENCH PREMIER. STATUS OF CIVIL AND ORDINARY WORKERS. RIGHT TO STRIKE DENIED. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. (Received April 8, 10.10 p.m.) PARIS, April 8. A small minority of civil servants is claiming the right to form trades unions and to go out on strike. M. Clemencouu, Premier, has forwarded a letter to the* Teachers* Union, slating that tho Bill lie has in hand permits civil servants to form associations, and entitles them, in their corporate capacity, lo take legal action against arbitrary administrative proceedings. Beyond tin's it is impossible for any Government to go, boeause a civil servant is a member of the hierarchy, in which lie possesses privileges not possessed by the ordinary worker. His salary is fixed by law; his employment is steady; and promotion is not affected by economic crises.
Civil servants aro not, therefore, the Premier maintains, entitled to take concerted action in any direction which involves tho breaking of their contract with the nation. This would bo a positive legal offence, inasmuch as it would thwart the normal active national sovereignty. Associations of officials cannot. M. Clcmenccau concludes, bo admitted to tho labour exchange, since they do not fall, like ordinary workmen, under tho law of supply and demand.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6178, 9 April 1907, Page 5
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211STATE SERVANTS New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6178, 9 April 1907, Page 5
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